He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNatural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
-
-
Nature does not make leaps.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
The past is pregnant with the present.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
What is is what must be.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ