I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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