Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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