Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Nature does not make leaps.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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What is is what must be.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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The present is great with the future.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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