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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

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

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems — Martin Cohen

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

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything. — 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