All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZTo love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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 makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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