Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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What is is what must be.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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