All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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