It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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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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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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