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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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What is is what must be.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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