Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

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

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Dust, Complaining

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• Everything that is possible demands to exist.

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  Demand

  "De veritatibus primis". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1686.

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• The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

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  Past, Society, Saturated

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• The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

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  Greatness, Years, Our Actions

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• He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

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  Sweet, Bitter, Sweet Things

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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• Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

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  Needs, Want, Should

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• Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

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  Soul, Secret, Problem

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• To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

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  Life, Love Is, Pleasure

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

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• The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

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  Machines, World, Force

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• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

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  Acting, Virtue, Habit

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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• It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

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  Wise, Easy, Foolish

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• There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

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  Philosophical, Two, Facts

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• 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.

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  Love Is, Pleasure, Delighted

  "The Elements of True Piety (1677)". "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189, 2006.

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• Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

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  Intellectual, Mind, Horizon

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

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  "'De rerum originatione radicali' ('The Radical Origin of Things')". Book by Gottfried Leibniz, 1697.

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• We live in the best of all possible worlds

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Optimistic

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

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• Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

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  Reason

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• I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

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  Believe, Order, Evil

  Letter to Louis Bourguet in late 1712. "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 208, 2006.

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• A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

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  Death, Doctors, People

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• Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

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  Exercise, Soul, Doe

  Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.

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• Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

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  Opposites

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

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• All things in God are spontaneous.

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  Spontaneous, All Things

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• What is is what must be.

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  Science

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• To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

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  Love, Love You, Heart

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

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  Perfect, Cemetery, Gates

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