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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is great with the future.
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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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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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What is is what must be.
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