Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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