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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZBut in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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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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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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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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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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