The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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 also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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What is is what must be.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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