Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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 past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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 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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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