God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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.
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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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I 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.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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.
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