A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIt is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The present is great with the future.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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