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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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