What is is what must be.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIf 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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except 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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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There is nothing without reason.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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