To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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What is is what must be.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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