Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Myself Ordinary System
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
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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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
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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Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
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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Delight Experience Happiness Love Myself True
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Gratitude Live One Liner Possible World
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself See Source
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
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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Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
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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Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
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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Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
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.
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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Complain Philosophy See Yourself
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Happiness Perfection Purpose Society Universe
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
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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