Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

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.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

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

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

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.

To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

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

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

What is is what must be.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

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.