I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ..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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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