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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZImaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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