..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 LEIBNIZThe greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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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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.
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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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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