It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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What is is what must be.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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.
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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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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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