There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The present is great with the future.
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