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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Amount Delight Happiness Love Oneself
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Future Past Pregnant Present
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Philosophy Question
Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
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

Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
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.
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Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Genuine Hold Mark Myself Nature Possible Reason
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
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labor Mindset Wonderful Worth
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
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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Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness. Pleasure Love