What is is what must be.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing 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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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