Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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