I 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The present is great with the future.
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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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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is nothing without reason.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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What is is what must be.
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