Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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What is is what must be.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The present is great with the future.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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