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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.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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