Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing 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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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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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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