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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 18 quotes by Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (/ˈlaɪbnɪts/; German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈlaɪbnɪts] or [ˈlaɪpnɪts]; July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716) was a German mathematician and philosopher. He occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. Most scholars believe Leibniz developed calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and Leibniz's notation has been widely used ever since it was published. It was only in the 20th... Read full biography of Gottfried Leibniz → 1 2 Ctrl → Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. 0 Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not... → 0 There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those... → 0 I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when... → 0 I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. 0 Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which... → 0 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... → 0 The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their... → 0 For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be... → 0 Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside... → 0 It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest... → 0 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... → 0 I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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