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.
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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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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What is is what must be.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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