In 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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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What is what must be.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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There is nothing without reason.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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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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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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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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