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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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.
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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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