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God Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
- According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
- 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…
- We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness…
- Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits…
- I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature…
- But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us…
- ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as…
- Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
- It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in…
- The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source;…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi