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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZPhilosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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What is is what must be.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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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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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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