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I 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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
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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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
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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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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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Discover Labor Mindset Wonderful Worth
What is is what must be.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Gratitude Live One Liner Possible World
God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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