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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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