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"It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."
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"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."
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"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."
God
"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible."
Truth
"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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"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Music
"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
Creativity
"It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being."
Being
"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."
Being
"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."
Man
"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."
God
"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached."
Truth
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