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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Gate Grave Peace Perfection Word Writing Yourself
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
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
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy Question
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
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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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth
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.
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Animal Myself Ordinary System
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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Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
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
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Act Habit Virtue Wisdom