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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Human Material Natural Religion Soul
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

Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Count Experience Happiness Human Mindset Music
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Important Invention Myself See Source
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Complain Philosophy See Yourself
The 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Action Constitution Estimate Greatness Karma Life Ourselves
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Myself Ordinary System
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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

Development God Order Small
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Music One Liner Perspective
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Necessary Possible