..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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.
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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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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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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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