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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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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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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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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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Future Present Simplicity State Way
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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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development God Order Small
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
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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Delight Experience Happiness Love Myself True
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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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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