Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZA 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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