To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMake me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The 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.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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.
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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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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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