Quotes from leibniz gottfried wilhelm

The present is pregnant with the future.

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

There is nothing without reason.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

All things in God are spontaneous.

What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

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.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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.

Nature does not make leaps.