The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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