Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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