There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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What is is what must be.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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