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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.

Gottfried Leibniz

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ

Appearance Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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Choice Creation God Perfection Phenomena Regular World
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
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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Change Existence God Lying Necessary Reason Source Ultimate
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Fine Imagination Spirit Wonderful
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Convince Knowledge Quantity Record Wealth Writing
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
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Attachment Happiness Open Problem Secret
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Finding Happiness Love Pleasure
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
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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Author Ignorance Infinite Mindset Nature Ourselves
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself Opinion See Source
All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ

God One Liner Spontaneous

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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