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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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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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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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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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.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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We should like Nature to go no further we should like it to be finite, like our mind but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.
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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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