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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZReality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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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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What is what must be.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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