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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIf you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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The present is great with the future.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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