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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God One Liner
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
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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God Human Material Natural Religion Soul
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
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
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
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
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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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
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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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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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Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
What is is what must be.
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One Liner Philosophy World
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Music One Liner Perspective
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
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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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production

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