All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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