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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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