There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNatural 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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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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