There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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