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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTaking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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What is is what must be.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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 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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