What is what must be.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZWe never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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 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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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