black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Related Topics

Animal Appearance Chaos Confusion Creation Death Live Save Universe Wasted World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Philosophy Question
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Bitter Hard Time Himself Sweet Taste Wisdom
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Myself Ordinary System
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Clear Different Form Ideas Science Soul Yourself
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Demand Existence Possible
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Future Past Pregnant Present
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness. Pleasure Love
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Genuine Hold Mark Myself Nature Possible Reason
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Believe Evil Good Necessary Possible Production
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes