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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWe 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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There 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.
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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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