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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

Gottfried Leibniz

The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Animal Garden Humor Plants Portion
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Change Existence God Lying Necessary Reason Source Ultimate
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Appearance Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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God Human Natural Religion Soul
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Happiness Heart Love Place
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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Author Ignorance Infinite Mindset Nature Ourselves
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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Beginning God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
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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Compound Simplicity Substance Talk
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
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible

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