What is is what must be.
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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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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In 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.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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