I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe past is pregnant with the present.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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What is is what must be.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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