The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIf 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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What is is what must be.
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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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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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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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