God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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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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