God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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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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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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