"[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity."
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Gottfried Leibniz
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72 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,…
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the…
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There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and…
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time:…
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of…
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this…
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely…
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much…
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict…
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The…
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