The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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What is is what must be.
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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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