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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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What is is what must be.
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One Liner Philosophy World
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
There is nothing without reason.
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Karma One Liner Reason
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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Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
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
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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Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Deep Fact Kind Reason Truth
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Grave Peace Perfection Word Writing Yourself
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy Question
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
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection

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