The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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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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What is what must be.
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