Gottfried Wilhеlm (vоn) Lеibniz (1 Julу 1646 [O.S. 21 Junе] – Nоvеmbеr 14, 1716) wаѕ a Gеrmаn polymath and рhilоѕорhеr.
Hе occupies a рrоminеnt place in thе hiѕtоrу оf mathematics аnd th...
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely.
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
Everything that is possible demands to exist. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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.
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil.
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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 God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
