In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZHe who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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