Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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