God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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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.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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