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 LEIBNIZA great doctor kills more people than a great general.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
-
-
The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
What is what must be.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
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
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ