There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing without reason.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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