I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIn symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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