Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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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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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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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The present is great with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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