Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEverything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZAll things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZA great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNothing 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIn symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ