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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Bitter Hard Time Himself Sweet Taste Wisdom
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Deep Fact Kind Reason Truth
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Achievement Admire Himself Man Time Understand
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Demand Existence Possible
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Genuine Myself Reality Unity
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory