The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZAnd there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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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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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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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 great with the future.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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What is what must be.
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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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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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