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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZAll things in God are spontaneous.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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What is is what must be.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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 find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is nothing without reason.
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