In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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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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What is what must be.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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