All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMen act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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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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