I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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