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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Complain Philosophy See Yourself
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
..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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Call Change Existence God Necessary Reason Substance Ultimate
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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Animal Clear Different Form Ideas Science Soul Yourself
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
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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Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
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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Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
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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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Bitter Hard Time Himself Sweet Taste Wisdom
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Exception God Independent Substance World
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
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
What is is what must be.
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One Liner Philosophy World
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Future Past Pregnant Present

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