Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZTaking 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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZTo love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere is nothing without a reason.
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What is what must be.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZWhat is what must be.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIt’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZNow 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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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