Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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