To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWhen God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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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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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.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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