The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZReality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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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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What is is what must be.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of 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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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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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 present is great with the future.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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