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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Animal Clear Different Form Ideas Science Soul Yourself
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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Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
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
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
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
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Gratitude Live One Liner Possible World
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Animal Destroy Philosophy Soul Spiritual Universe
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
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
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
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
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
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Development God Order Small
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
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 necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
The present is great with the future.
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Future Greatness One Liner Present
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
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
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth
What is is what must be.
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One Liner Philosophy World
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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Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul

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