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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.
— Gottfried Leibniz
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The most perfect society is that whose purpose
is the universal and supreme happiness. — Gottfried Leibniz
is the universal and supreme happiness. — Gottfried Leibniz
The present is big with the future.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Nature does not make leaps.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
— Gottfried Leibniz
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
— Gottfried Leibniz
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another ...
— 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
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
... every feeling is the perception of a truth ...
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
— Andre Maurois
He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
All things in God are spontaneous.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
— Gottfried Leibniz
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
— Gottfried Leibniz
For I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?
— Voltaire
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The present is great with the future.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
— Gottfried Leibniz
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.
— Gottfried Leibniz
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is nothing without reason.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.
— Gottfried Leibniz
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
— Gottfried Leibniz
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
— 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
As far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it ...
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
— 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
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
— 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
There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
— 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
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order ... is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
— Gottfried Leibniz
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The past is pregnant with the present.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
— Gottfried Leibniz
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
— Gottfried Leibniz
If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz