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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZNow this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The 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.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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