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Nature Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way…
- I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason,…
- Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and,…
- There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
- Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it…
- In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were,…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle