There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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