Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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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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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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