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

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Perfect, Cemetery, Gates

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• 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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Science, Law

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”

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• Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  World, Changing The World, Masters

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• He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Time, Math, Men

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• I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Book, Men, Different

  "Discours touchant la méthode de la certitude et l’art d’inventer". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1690.

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• Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Opposites

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nature does not make leaps.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Doe, Leap

  Foreword to "Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain" by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1704.

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• Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Interesting, Important

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• The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Thinking, Brain, Would Be

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• Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Justice, Charity

  "A Dialogue". "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170, 2006.

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• 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

  Believe, Evil, Mixtures

  "The Shorter Leibniz Texts". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 2006.

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

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Confusion, Waste, Chaos

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• It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Discovery, Mind

  "Quantum Field Theory III: Gauge Theory: A Bridge between Mathematicians and Physicists". Book by Eberhard Zeidler, p. 439, August 17, 2011.

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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

  God, Science, Essence

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• 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

  Love Is, Happiness And Love, Delight

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1890). “The philosophical works of Leibnitz .”, p.380, Рипол Классик

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• Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Words Of Wisdom

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• There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Simple, Opposites

  "The philosophical works of Leibnitz".

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• 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.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Men, Machines

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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

  Past, Might, Bigs

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz “The monadology and other philosophical writings”, Рипол Классик

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• The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

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  Order, Strive, Should

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• There is nothing without reason.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reason

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• 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

  Philosophy, Simple, Substance

  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

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• All things in God are spontaneous.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Spontaneous, All Things

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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

  Numbers, Unity, Amphibians

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