I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without reason.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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