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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIn my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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