There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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