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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Complain Philosophy See Yourself
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
What is is what must be.
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One Liner Philosophy World
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Destiny God Himself Knowledge Regulation Work
There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Philosophy Reason
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
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 past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Change Education Master Myself World
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Exception God Independent Substance World
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
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Count Experience Happiness Human Mindset Music

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