Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIn 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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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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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