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 LEIBNIZJustice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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