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.
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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The present is great with the future.
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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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