The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTaking 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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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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 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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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But 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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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.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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