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• Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Unity

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• Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Math, Science

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• 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 Leibniz

  Art, Math, Causes

  "New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing". Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen,

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• Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Ideas, Perfection, Choices

  "Monadology". Book by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, paragraphs 53 & 54, 1714.

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• 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 Leibniz

  Order, Space, Said

  Third letter to Samuel Clarke, February 25, 1716.

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• Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Memories, Men, Practice

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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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Time, Science, Done

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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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Mean, Simple, Mirrors

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• I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Pain, Order, Words Of Wisdom

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• And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Words Of Wisdom, Substance

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Math, Science

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• There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Destiny, Certain, Providence

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• Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

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  Animal, Garden, Ponds

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• The past is pregnant with the present.

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  Past, Pregnant

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• All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.

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  Taken, Animal, Men

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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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Two, Judging

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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 Leibniz

  Mean, Simple, Words Of Wisdom

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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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  Order, Needs, Inventory

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• Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.

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  Dream, Rainbow, Soul

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• I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Words Of Wisdom, Unity

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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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Mirrors, Soul, Indestructible

  "Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology".

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• ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Lying, Words Of Wisdom, Differentiation

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• It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Words Of Wisdom, Progress

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• God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Form, Small Parts

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Protogaea”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Animal, Giving, Soul

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