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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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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Animal Appearance Chaos Confusion Creation Death Live Save Universe Wasted World
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
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
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Action Constitution Estimate Greatness Karma Life Ourselves
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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Diminsh Discover Greatness Nature Photograph Thinking Wonderful
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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Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Mathematics Music Myself Problem Secret Soul Unconscious
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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
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 great with the future.
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Future Greatness One Liner Present
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
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
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
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.
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Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Call Change Existence God Necessary Reason Substance Ultimate
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
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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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
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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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Count Experience Happiness Human Mindset Music
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
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

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