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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

Gottfried Leibniz

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Certain Establishment Goodness Order Progress
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Act Man Perception Practice Theory
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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Demonstration Mindset Reason Understand
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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Creation Dependent Impossible Influence Oneself Way
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
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Count Music Pleasure Unconscious
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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Accomplishment Greatness Law Nature Oneself
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
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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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Clear Different Form Ideas Soul Species Yourself
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
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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Divisible Element Extension Nature Part Shape
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor Greatness Kill People
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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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short

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