To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The present is great with the future.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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