A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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The present is great with the future.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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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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