Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to… — 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
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a… — 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
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“...it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — 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
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and… — 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
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