There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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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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The present is great with the future.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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.
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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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