We live in the best of all possible worlds.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZImaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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