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.
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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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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What is what must be.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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 is nothing without reason.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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