A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMen 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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The present is great with the future.
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There is nothing without reason.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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