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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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There is nothing without reason.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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