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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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