We live in the best of all possible worlds.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZIt 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.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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What is what must be.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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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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