I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing 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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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What is is what must be.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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