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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMake me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The present is great with the future.
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