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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Gottfried Leibniz

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
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
What is what must be.
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One Liner
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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Different Nature Possible Quality
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
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Habit Virtue Wisdom
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Awareness Counting Experience Human Mindset Music Pleasure
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Ideal Influence Simplicity
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Existence Philosophy
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
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
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
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complaint Philosophy Yourself
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
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Peace Perfection Writing
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Existence Hold Order Space Success Time

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