I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZNothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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A 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.
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There is nothing without reason.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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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 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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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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