I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIn whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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What is what must be.
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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