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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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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 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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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