"But in simple substances the influence of one……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
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Gottfried Leibniz
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72 Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz has 72 quotes on this site.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another....
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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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More Ideal Quotes
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one of 1,406 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
— Arthur Ashe
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
— Luis Barragan
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the…
— Robert Benchley
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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real…
— Alfred Adler
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into…
— Annie Besant
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
— Bjork
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My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
— Susie Bright
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