Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZNothing 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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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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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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 find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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What is what must be.
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