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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz When 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 LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz There is nothing without a reason.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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