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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 Leibniz

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labour Mindset Wonderful Worth
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Animal Appearance Confusion Creation Death Live Save World
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
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
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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Dreams Enough Life Myself Physical Reason
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Knowledge Man Time Understand Wisdom
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
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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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
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
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complaint Philosophy Yourself
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
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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Author Ignorance Infinite Mindset Nature Ourselves

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