There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZGod’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The present is great with the future.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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There is nothing without reason.
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