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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

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Development God Order Small
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Genuine Myself Reality Unity
There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Karma One Liner Reason
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
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
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Deep Fact Kind Reason Truth
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Doctor General Greatness People
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Clear Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual Man True
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Habit Virtue Wisdom
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory