"Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Everything that is possible demands to exist."
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"The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"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."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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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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"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 Leibniz
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"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."
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"Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."
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"It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."
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"I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration."
― Gottfried Leibniz |
"In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."
― Gottfried Leibniz
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