The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZFor 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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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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The present is great 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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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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