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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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