Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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