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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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 are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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