The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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What is what must be.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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Each 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.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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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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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 nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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