But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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 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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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