Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZPhilosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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 art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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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 nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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