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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Gottfried Leibniz

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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Author Infinite Nature Order Perfection
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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Choice Creation God Perfection Phenomena Regular World
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom
A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Clear Distinction Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
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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Animal Destroy Mirror Soul Universe
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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Compound Simplicity Substance Talk
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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Follow God Limitation Perfection Positive Reality
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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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Future Present Simplicity State Substance
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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Change Existence God Lying Necessary Reason Source Ultimate
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

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