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There is nothing without reason.

Gottfried Leibniz

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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Clear Distinction Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complaint Philosophy Yourself
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
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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Capacity Horizon Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Act Man Perception Practice Theory
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Fake Greatness Ground Judgement Principle Reason True
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
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
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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God Himself Relation Subject Work
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Known Large Ordinary Ourselves Ready System
The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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Divine Finding Imagination Negative Spirit Unity
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Action Estimate Greatness Life Ourselves Time
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Certain Destiny God Himself Work
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Absolute Birth Call Death Development Strict
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
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development Form God Order Small

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