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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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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The present is great with the future.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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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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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.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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