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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The present is great with the future.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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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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