There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZOne 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.
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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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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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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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What is what must be.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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