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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Connection Creation Expression Relationship Simplicity Universe
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Discover Labor Mindset Wonderful Worth
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Bitter Hard Time Himself Sweet Taste Wisdom
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Gate Grave Peace Perfection Word Writing Yourself
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Body Born Death Development Growth Separate Soul
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
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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Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Force Life Machine Thinking World
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Heart Love Place
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Change Education Master Myself World
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Choice Easy Original Wisdom
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth