The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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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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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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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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