It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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What is is what must be.
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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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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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