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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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