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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Future Past Pregnant Present
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Appearance Chaos Confusion Creation Death Live Save Universe Wasted World
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way
Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Escape Nature One Liner Skip
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Force Life Machine Thinking World
The present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Future Greatness One Liner Present
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Exception God Independent Substance World
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Dedication Effort Inspirational Motivational Need Success Yourself
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality