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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Gottfried Leibniz

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
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Invention Knowledge Need Resemble Service
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labour Mindset Wonderful Worth
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
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
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
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
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Adaption Connection Creation Expression Mirror Simplicity Substance Universe
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
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Inspirational Necessary Need Yourself
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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Collection Compound Simplicity Substance

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