Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZGod makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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The present is great with the future.
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