It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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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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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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