It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe past is pregnant with the present.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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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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