Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

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

  Gottfried Leibniz

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

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

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  Machines, World, Force

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

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  Love, Love You, Heart

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

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  Reason

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

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  Death, Doctors, People

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• What is is what must be.

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  Science

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

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  World, Changing The World, Masters

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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.

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  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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• God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

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  Perfect, Might, Conformity

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

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