Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMen 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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What is is what must be.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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