There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZBut 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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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There is nothing without reason.
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What is is what must be.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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 hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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The present is great with the future.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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