There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNow 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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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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What is is what must be.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The present is great with the future.
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