Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing without reason.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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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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What is is what must be.
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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.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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