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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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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.
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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.
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There is nothing without reason.
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