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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
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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Clear Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual Man True
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
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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
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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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
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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Animal Destroy Philosophy Soul Spiritual Universe
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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Important Invention Myself See Source
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
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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God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Action Constitution Estimate Greatness Karma Life Ourselves
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
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.
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Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Achievement Admire Himself Man Time Understand