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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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God Human Material Natural Religion Soul
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.
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Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithemetic Count Happiness Music Pleasure
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Delight Experience Happiness Love Myself True
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
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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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
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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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Perspective Pregnant Present
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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Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
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.
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Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Grave Peace Perfection Word Writing Yourself
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
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

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