A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Men 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.
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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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