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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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What is is what must be.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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