We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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 necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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