It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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 present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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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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