Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on divine
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz83 quotes“Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.”
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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 LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The present is great with the future.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried 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 LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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