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 LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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If 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.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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 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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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