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 LEIBNIZTake what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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What is is what must be.
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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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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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