We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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What is is what must be.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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 place happiness in the heart of another.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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