Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is great with the future.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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