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.
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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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What is is what must be.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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