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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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The present is great with the future.
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What is is what must be.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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 world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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.
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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.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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