The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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 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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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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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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