Ifs Quotes by Gottfried 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…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing without reason.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

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

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried 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…

— Gottfried Leibniz