I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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What is is what must be.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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