I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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