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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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