If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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It 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.
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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