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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZReality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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