Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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 present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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