Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZFor 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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There is nothing without a reason.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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.
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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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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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