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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.

Gottfried Leibniz

The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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God Human Natural Religion Soul
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
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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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Choice Creation God Perfection Phenomena Regular World
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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Divisible Element Extension Nature Part Shape
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
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
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
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
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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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave
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
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

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