Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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