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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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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.
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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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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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What is is what must be.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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