To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTaking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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The present is great with the future.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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