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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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