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This is why 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. Gottfried Leibniz#Changes 68
Gottfried Leibniz#Changes 68
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. Gottfried Leibniz#Cause 66
Gottfried Leibniz#Cause 66
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Changes 66
Gottfried Leibniz#Changes 66
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Being 62
Gottfried Leibniz#Being 62
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Act 62
Gottfried Leibniz#Act 62
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Absolutely 59
Gottfried Leibniz#Absolutely 59
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz#Music 58
Gottfried Leibniz#Music 58
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Axioms 58
Gottfried Leibniz#Axioms 58
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Beginning 55
Gottfried Leibniz#Beginning 55
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. Gottfried Leibniz#Analysis 45
Gottfried Leibniz#Analysis 45
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