He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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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 no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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