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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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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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.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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.
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