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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere 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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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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What is what must be.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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