1,228 Quotes About Words-of-wisdom

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.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom 'Let it be,'

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?