The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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