The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTaking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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The present is great with the future.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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