The past is pregnant with the present.
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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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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