The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The present is great with the future.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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What is is what must be.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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