All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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 past is pregnant with the present.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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