One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZA great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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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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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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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