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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

Gottfried Leibniz

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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Invention Knowledge Need Resemble Service
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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Future Present Simplicity State Substance
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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Body End Human Interfere Nature Ridiculous Soul
Nature does not make leaps.
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Leap Nature
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
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
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
There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Animal Appearance Confusion Creation Death Live Save World
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
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
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste

I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

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