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 LEIBNIZNature does not make leaps.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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 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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There is nothing without reason.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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.
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