It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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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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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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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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 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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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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