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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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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