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The past is pregnant with the present.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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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 greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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