To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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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.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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.
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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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