Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZTaking 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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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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