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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Amount Delight Happiness Love Oneself
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
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 LEIBNIZ

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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
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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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Exception God Independent Substance World
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

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