Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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