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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

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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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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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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.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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