Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The present is great with the future.
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It 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.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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