The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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