All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe 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 knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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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 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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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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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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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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