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Reason is the linking together of truths, but particularly (when it is compared with faith) of those to which the human mind can attain naturally without being helped by the light of faith.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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And as every present state of a simple substance is naturally a consequence of its preceding state, so its present is pregnant with its future.

The Monadology (1714)

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

De veritatibus primis (1686)

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Discours de métaphysique (1686)

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

De rerum originatione radicali (1697)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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