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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
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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Animal Clear Different Form Ideas Science Soul Yourself
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Genuine Hold Mark Myself Nature Possible Reason
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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Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Dedication Effort Inspirational Motivational Need Success Yourself
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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Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Count Experience Happiness Human Mindset Music
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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Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
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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Animal Myself Ordinary System
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.
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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Clear Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual Man True
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
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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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth