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What is is what must be.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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Future Present Simplicity State Way
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor General Greatness People
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
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Mathematics Music Myself Problem Secret Soul Unconscious
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Genuine Myself Reality Unity
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
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
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
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
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing

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