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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Easy Fools Original Wisdom
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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Accomplishment Greatness Law Nature Oneself
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Fake Greatness Ground Judgement Principle Reason True
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
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.
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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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Choice Existence God Possible Willing
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
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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Collection Compound Simplicity Substance
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World

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