The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is great with the future.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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I 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.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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What is is what must be.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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