What is what must be.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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