Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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 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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There is nothing without a reason.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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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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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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What is is what must be.
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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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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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