Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZA 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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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What is is what must be.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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