But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZJustice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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 words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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