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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness Present
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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Different Nature Possible Quality
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Convince Knowledge Quantity Record Wealth Writing
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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Collection Compound Simplicity Substance
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Awareness Counting Experience Human Mindset Music Pleasure
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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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Assemble Collection Goodness Mass Order Possession Right
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
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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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
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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Beginning Form Simplicity Substance
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
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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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Knowledge Man Time Understand Wisdom
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason

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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