There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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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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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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