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“ …if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes… ”

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...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

…every feeling is the perception of a truth...

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz