He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZOur 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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