Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZA distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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 makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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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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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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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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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