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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing without a reason.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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