To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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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.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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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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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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