The Present Is Saturated With The Past

Thus God Alone Is The Primary Unity, Or Original Simple Substance, From Which All Monads, Created And Derived, Are Produced.

I Agree With You That It Is Important To Examine Our Presuppositions, Throughly And Once For All, In Order To Establish Something Solid. For I Hold That It Is Only When We Can Prove All That We Bring Forward That We Perfectly Understand The Thing Under Consideration. I Know That The Common Herd Takes Little Pleasure In These Researches, But I Know Also That The Common Herd Take Little Pains Thoroughly To Understand Things.

Every Mind Has A Horizon In Respect To Its Present Intellectual Capacity But Not In Respect To Its Future Intellectual Capacity.

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.

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.