I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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..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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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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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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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