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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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What is is what must be.
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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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