Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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 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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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