We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

Gottfried Leibniz

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Demonstration Mindset

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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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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Development Strict
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development Form Order Small
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Relation Subject
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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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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Mindset
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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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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Confusion
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing without a reason.

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There is nothing without a reason.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Dependent Oneself Way
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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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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Chaos Confusion Wasted
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Oneself

We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

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