I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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