Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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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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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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