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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Nature does not make leaps.
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Escape Nature One Liner Skip
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Deep Fact Kind Reason Truth
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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God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
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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Animal Appearance Chaos Confusion Creation Death Live Save Universe Wasted World
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Achievement Admire Himself Man Time Understand
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Myself Ordinary System
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
..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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Call Change Existence God Necessary Reason Substance Ultimate
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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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
There is nothing without reason.
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Karma One Liner Reason
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy Question
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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