God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Every 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.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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