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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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 do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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