"Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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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."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"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."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"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."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"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."
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"A great doctor kills more people than a great general."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The past is pregnant with the present."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking..."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The present is great with the future."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?"
― Gottfried Leibniz
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