The present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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