Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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What is is what must be.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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