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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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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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There 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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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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We should like Nature to go no further we should like it to be finite, like our mind but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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