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The present is great with the future.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
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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Animal Appearance Chaos Confusion Creation Death Live Save Universe Wasted World
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
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 Human Material Natural Religion Soul
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
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Grave Peace Perfection Word Writing Yourself
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
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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Diminsh Discover Greatness Nature Photograph Thinking Wonderful
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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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Animal Myself Ordinary System
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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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
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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Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
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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Clear Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual Man True
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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Amount Delight Happiness Love Oneself
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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Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Gratitude Live One Liner Possible World
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Important Invention Myself See Source
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
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth

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