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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Exception Finding Oneself Reality
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Advantage Diminish Greatness Observation Wonderful
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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Clear Different Form Ideas Soul Species Yourself
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself Opinion See Source
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
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
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Creation Dependent Impossible Influence Oneself Way
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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God Miracle Nature Power Wisdom Work
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity

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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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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