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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Diminsh Discover Greatness Nature Photograph Thinking Wonderful
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The present is great with the future.
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