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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

— Gottfried Leibniz The World of Mathematics (1956)

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And as every present state of a simple substance is naturally a consequence of its preceding state, so its present is pregnant with its future.

The Monadology (1714)

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

De veritatibus primis (1686)

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

Discours de métaphysique (1686)

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

De rerum originatione radicali (1697)

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