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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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.
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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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