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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There is nothing without reason.
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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.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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