Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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If 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.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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