One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIt is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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