There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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