It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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.
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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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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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