Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMen act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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