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Gottfried Leibniz

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Alone Creation God Primary Production
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Invention Knowledge Need Resemble Service
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Knowledge Man Time Understand Wisdom
There is nothing without reason.
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Life One Liner Philosophy Reason
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Appearance Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Earn Sweet Taste
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
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
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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Change Creation Grant Oneself Subject
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Certain Destiny God Himself Work
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Existence Hold Order Space Success Time
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
What is what must be.
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One Liner
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Believe Evil Goodness Necessary Possible Production
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.
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Infinity Judgment Machine Past Present Time
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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Choice Existence God Possible Willing
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
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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Body Dreams Each Other Perfection Phenomena Soul Substance
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Absolute Birth Call Death Development Strict
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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Author Ignorance Infinite Mindset Nature Ourselves
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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Animal Appearance Confusion Creation Death Live Save World
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Fake Greatness Ground Judgement Principle Reason True

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