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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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 LEIBNIZ

Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Philosophy Reason
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Habit Virtue Wisdom
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness. Pleasure Love
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 LEIBNIZ

Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
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 LEIBNIZ

Author Hold Myself Nature Perfection
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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Action Constitution Estimate Greatness Karma Life Ourselves
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Mathematics Music Myself Problem Secret Soul Unconscious
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Clear Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual Man True
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
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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Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way