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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIn 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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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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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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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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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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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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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