The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod’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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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..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.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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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