To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZOne cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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