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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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There is nothing without reason.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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