The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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 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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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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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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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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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