It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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What is is what must be.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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There is nothing without reason.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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