Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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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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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 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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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