A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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