There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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One 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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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The present is great with the future.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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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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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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