Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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 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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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 a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The present is great with the future.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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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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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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