I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZEach portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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The present is great with the future.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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