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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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 hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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