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.
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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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