The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZOf 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?
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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