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 LEIBNIZNature does not make leaps.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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.
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