Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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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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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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