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Music is the pleasure the huma...

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

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

Whence it follows that God is ...

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

Nihil est sine ratione. There ...

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

Philosophy consists mostly of ...

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

For, above all, I hold a notio...

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

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Virtue is the habit of acting ...

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

I am convinced that the unwrit...

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.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

Nothing is necessitated whose ...

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

There is a certain destiny of ...

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

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Now, as there is an infinity o...

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.

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I hold that it is only when we...

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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If you have a clear idea of a ...

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.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

It is necessary to believe tha...

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

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Every substance is as a world ...

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

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In whatever manner God created...

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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There are two famous labyrinth...

There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.

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There is no argument so cogent...

There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.

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Everything that is possible de...

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

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I do not believe that a world ...

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

God's relation to spirits is n...

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.

Gotfrid Leybnits 98 quotes

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