Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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