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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Deep Fact Kind Reason Truth
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Explanation Oneself Science Time
In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
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 LEIBNIZ

Greatness Invention Knowledge Possession Service
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Original Primary Production Simplicity Unity
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
All things in God are spontaneous.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God One Liner
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Necessary Possible
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Existence Hold Myself Order Space Time
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect