I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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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.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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In 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.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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