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.
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
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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