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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZHe who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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