Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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