I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZHe who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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The present is great with the future.
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For 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.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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
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The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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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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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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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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