The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZReality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWe live in the best of all possible worlds.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIf 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWhen God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ