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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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