Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZWhy is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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