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...
In mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers! Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
In mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!
Everything that is possible demands to exist. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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.
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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.
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.
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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.
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
