In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

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Infinity Judgment

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
All things in God are spontaneous.

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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Spontaneous
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Unconscious
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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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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Expression Substance
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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Substance
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Expression Near
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Form Substance
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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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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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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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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Source
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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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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Form
There is nothing without a reason.

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There is nothing without a reason.
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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum

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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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Unity
The past is pregnant with the present.

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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Pregnant
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Hold Order
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

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