We live in the best of all possible worlds.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZA distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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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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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 a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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