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- Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays. “Nihil est sine ratione. [There is nothing without a reason.]” ― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. “Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
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- Philosophical Writings. “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.” ― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- New Essays on Human Understanding. “It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
- Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything. Gottfried Leibniz. Philosophy, Dust, Complaining.
- Everything that is possible demands to exist. Gottfried Leibniz. Demand.
- 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.
- Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want. Gottfried Leibniz. Needs, Want, Should.
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Gottfried Leibniz is famous... for his slogan Calculemus, which means "Let us calculate." He envisioned a formal language to reduce reasoning to calculation, and he said that reasonable men, faced...
- Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
- This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
- When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
- Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
- 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.
- I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
- This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
- But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Dec 22, 2007 · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology ...
Browse a collection of quotes from the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716). Find his insights on topics such as reason, truth, love, God, nature, and more.
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