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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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.
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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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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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