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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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There is nothing without 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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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 nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The present is great with the future.
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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.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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 understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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