Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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What is is what must be.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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