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?
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMake me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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