Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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 great with the future.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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