It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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 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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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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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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