It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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 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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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 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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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