The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIn 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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What is is what must be.
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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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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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