..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
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… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
