Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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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.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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