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  • Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

    Animal   Garden   Ponds  
  • There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

    Confusion   Waste   Chaos  
  • Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

    Life   Dream   Real  
    "The World of Mathematics". Book by James R. Newman, p. 1832, 1956.
  • Everything that is possible demands to exist.

    Demand  
    "De veritatibus primis". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1686.
  • Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

  • 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.

    Ideas   Soul   Different  
  • There is nothing without reason.

    Reason  
  • 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.

    Nature   Science   Law  
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”
  • Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

    "A Dialogue". "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170, 2006.
  • It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

    Science   Men   Machines  
  • The present is great with the future.

  • It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

    Believe   Evil   Mixtures  
    "The Shorter Leibniz Texts". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 2006.
  • A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

    Death   Doctors   People  
  • There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.

  • Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

    "'De rerum originatione radicali' ('The Radical Origin of Things')". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1697.
  • I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

    God   Order   Perfection  
  • We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

    Mind   Infinite   Reason  
    "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations". Book edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 11, 2006.
  • Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

    Music   Math   Science  
  • The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

    Past   Might   Bigs  
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz “The monadology and other philosophical writings”, Рипол Классик
  • Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

    Exercise   Soul   Doe  
    Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.
  • Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

    Time   Science   Done  
  • We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

    "Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology".
  • I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

  • 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.

    Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (2011). “The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics”, p.458, Anchor
  • For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

    Perfection   Mind   Doe  
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.20, Hackett Publishing
  • There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

  • All things in God are spontaneous.

  • 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.

    Animal   Confusion   Soul  
  • There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

  • The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

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    Gottfried Leibniz

    • Born: July 1, 1646
    • Died: November 14, 1716
    • Occupation: Mathematician