Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZWhence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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