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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
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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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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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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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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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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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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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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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The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The present is great with the future.
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