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 LEIBNIZWhy is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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