I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant. Gottfried Leibniz More Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz More Quotes From Gottfried Leibniz Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want. Gottfried Leibniz shouldwantneeds Everything that is possible demands to exist. Gottfried Leibniz demand It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used. Gottfried Leibniz machinesmenscience The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. Gottfried Leibniz our-actionsgreatnessyears Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz souldoeexercise Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything. Gottfried Leibniz dustcomplainingphilosophy Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity. Gottfried Leibniz horizonintellectualmind It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. Gottfried Leibniz mixturesevilbelieve Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future. Gottfried Leibniz substancesimplephilosophy Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? Gottfried Leibniz Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. Gottfried Leibniz importantmathinteresting The most perfect society is that whose purpose Gottfried Leibniz purposeperfecthappiness To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love. Gottfried Leibniz delightedpleasurelove-is God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired. Gottfried Leibniz conformityperfectmight Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible. Gottfried Leibniz opposites There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive. Gottfried Leibniz simpleoppositesscience Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. Gottfried Leibniz amphibiansunitynumbers The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near. Gottfried Leibniz bigsmightpast In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished. Gottfried Leibniz naturemathscience The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. Gottfried Leibniz saturatedsocietypast
