There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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.
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