Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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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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 nothing without reason.
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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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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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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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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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