Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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The present is great with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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