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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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