One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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What is what must be.
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There 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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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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