"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."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought."
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"Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?"
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"We live in the best of all possible worlds."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"There is nothing without reason."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"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."
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"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"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 Leibniz |
"Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things."
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