Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Now 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.
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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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When 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.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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