God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred.… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
