The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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.
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What is is what must be.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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