"One cannot explain words without making incursions into……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms."
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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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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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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
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I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.
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Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the…
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If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to…
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . .…
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