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 LEIBNIZIt 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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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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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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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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