God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZBut in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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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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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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