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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZAll things in God are spontaneous.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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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.
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The present is great with the future.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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