I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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 nothing without reason.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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