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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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 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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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