Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The present is great with the future.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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