Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZVirtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The present is great with the future.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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