He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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..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.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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