Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZEach portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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The present is great with the future.
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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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 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 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 past is pregnant with the present.
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