Necessary Substance Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz

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• Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those…
• To love is to place happiness in the heart of another....
• These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and…
• There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite…
• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it…
• It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than…
• We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to…
• It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
• Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that…
• Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better…
• Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting…
• It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

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