Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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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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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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What is is what must be.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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