..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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery 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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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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There is nothing without reason.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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