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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere 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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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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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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. 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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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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