Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMake me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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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.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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