Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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What is is what must be.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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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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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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