To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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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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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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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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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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 are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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