God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZAlthough 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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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