I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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