Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWe 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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The present is great with the future.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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