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.
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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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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