Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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 past is pregnant with the present.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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What is is what must be.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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 present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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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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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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