Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIt’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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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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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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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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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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