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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
The present is great with the future.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Genuine Hold Mark Myself Nature Possible Reason
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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