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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing without reason.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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.
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