Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes

The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order...is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible.

Milovať znamená radovať sa z cudzieho šťastia.

Pourquoi y a-t-il quelque chose plutôt que rien ?

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.

This connection of all created things with every single one of them and their adaptation to every single one, as well as the connection and adaptation of every single thing to all others, has the result that every single substance stands in relations which express all the others. Whence every single substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

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

Omne possibile exigit existere.

Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi.

quando orientur controversiae, non magis disputatione opus erit inter duos philosophos, quam inter duos computistas. Sufficiet enim calamos in manus sumere sedereque ad abacos, et sibi mutuo (accito si placet amico) dicere: calculemus

[...] c’est que jamais rien n’arrive, sans qu’il y ail une cause ou du moins une raison déterminante, c’est-à-dire quelque chose qui puisse servir à rendre a priori, pourquoi cela est existant plulôt que de toute autre façon. Ce grand principe a lieu dans tous les événements, et on ne donnera jamais un exemple contraire : et quoique le plus souvent ces raisons déterminantes ne nous soient pas assez connues, nous ne laissons pas d’entrevoir qu’il y en a.
Essais de Théodicée, 1.44

It is true that as the empty voids and the dismal wilderness belong to zero, so the spirit of God and His light belong to the all-powerful One.

Không có toán học chúng ta không thể đi sâu vào triết học. Không có triết học chúng ta không thể đi sâu vào toán học. Không có cả hai chúng ta không thể đi sâu vào bất cứ thứ gì

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary.

Music is a calculation which the soul makes unconsciously in secret.