Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on existence
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz83 quotes“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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What is is what must be.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Nature does not make leaps.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 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.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Rohit DeoraRohit Deora Take a moment to look back. Change the process slightly from your discovery. Start again.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park The silence was broken with the music of your pain, but with every note i could see a part of you healing.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia It has been the craziest year filled with so many adventures, amazing friends, accomplishments & memories.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson They say what is lost can always be found in the last place you look but I wouldn’t be so sure that you’ll ever see this version of me again.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I want to see our demons complement each other for the rest of our lives.
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Aneena BijuAneena Biju When everyone that exists right now becomes history packed into the soil and stars I wonder what they will learn about us.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry She was the freedom of his existence that rushed in like tsunami, that ignited his breaths into calm.
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