Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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What is is what must be.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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