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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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