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.
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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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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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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