There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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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It 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.
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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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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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The present is great with the future.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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