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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labor Mindset Wonderful Worth
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
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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Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
Every 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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Future Present Simplicity State Way
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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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Animal Destroy Philosophy Soul Spiritual Universe
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
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
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

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