Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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