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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Gottfried Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Fact Kind Reason Truth
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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Clear Different Form Ideas Soul Species Yourself
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Animal Appearance Confusion Creation Death Live Save World
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Define Delight Happiness Love Myself True
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Advantage Diminish Greatness Observation Wonderful
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
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Anand Thakur
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
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Act Man Perception Practice Theory
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Expression Future Near Past Present Reading
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
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
The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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Divine Finding Imagination Negative Spirit Unity
Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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Condition Destroy God Time Yourself
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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God Human Natural Religion Soul

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