I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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