Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTake what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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