Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The 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.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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