Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. Gottfried Leibniz More Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz More Quotes From Gottfried Leibniz When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God. Gottfried Leibniz order mean thinking [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. Gottfried Leibniz sublime roots science Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. Gottfried Leibniz changing-the-world masters world If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species. Gottfried Leibniz different soul ideas ...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection. Gottfried Leibniz imagination men ideas It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends. Gottfried Leibniz body soul long I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. Gottfried Leibniz words-of-wisdom causes ideas Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. Gottfried Leibniz practice men memories The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need. Gottfried Leibniz inventory order needs I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded. Gottfried Leibniz different men book Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false. Gottfried Leibniz judging two science If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness. Gottfried Leibniz wisest-man men order The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery. Gottfried Leibniz gates cemetery perfect To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own. Gottfried Leibniz happiness-and-love delight love-is There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value. Gottfried Leibniz karma remembrance soul It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty. Gottfried Leibniz words-of-wisdom progress order Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul. Gottfried Leibniz rainbow soul dream There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. Gottfried Leibniz chaos waste confusion The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road. Gottfried Leibniz causes math art He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things. Gottfried Leibniz sweet-things bitter sweet
