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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
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
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
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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Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
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
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
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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Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
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
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
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Call Change Existence God Necessary Reason Substance Ultimate
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
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
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself 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