Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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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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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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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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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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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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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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.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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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 reason.
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