We live in the best of all possible worlds.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZNatural 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 makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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What is what must be.
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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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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 necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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