"It's easier to be original and foolish than……" — Gottfried Leibniz

"It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise."

— Gottfried Leibniz

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72 Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz has 72 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only,…
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…
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and…
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time:…
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of…
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this…
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…
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much…
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict…
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

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