The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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What is is what must be.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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