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Nature does not make leaps.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Action Constitution Estimate Greatness Karma Life Ourselves
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Change Education Master Myself World
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
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 LEIBNIZ

Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Destroy Philosophy Soul Spiritual Universe
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Important Invention Myself See Source
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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Animal Garden Philosophy Plant
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Force Life Machine Thinking World
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Diminsh Discover Greatness Nature Photograph Thinking Wonderful
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Development God Order Small

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