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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

Gottfried Leibniz

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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Accomplishment Greatness Law Nature Oneself
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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Expression Future Near Past Present Reading
I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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Body Perception Sort Worm
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
What is what must be.
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One Liner
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complaint Philosophy Yourself
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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Author Ignorance Infinite Mindset Nature Ourselves
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Fine Imagination Spirit Wonderful
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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Capacity Horizon Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Known Large Ordinary Ourselves Ready System
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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Future Present Simplicity State Substance

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