Men 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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZReality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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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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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.
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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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