I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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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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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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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