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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNatural 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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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