A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There is nothing without a reason.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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