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.
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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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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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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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Whence 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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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