Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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What is what must be.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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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 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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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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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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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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