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.
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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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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What is is what must be.
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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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