“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there… — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
“... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.” — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Copy Share Image
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems” — Martin Cohen Copy Share Image
Leibniz mapped the principles concerning the conservation of energy, but nobody has yet scientifically diagrammed the conservation of emotion - have they?… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
“Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing common to the great modern speculative philosophers, Leibniz, Hegel and Deleuze, it is the risk that re-animating… — Christian Kerslake Copy Share Image
“Now she was smiling. “And while you’re at it,” she said, “here’s another one for you. Theodicy. That’s another word Leibniz used.… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he… — Shelby D. Hunt Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a… — Christopher Steiner Copy Share Image
“[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms,… — Peter Loptson Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz said. "Each painter can view the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Leibniz's calculus had the same power as Newton's, and thanks to its notation, even a bit more. Nevertheless, underneath all the mathematics,… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of Leibnitz in… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Shut up about Leibniz for a moment, Rudy, because look here: You—Rudy—and I are on a train, as it were, sitting in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“In this short philosophical novel he completely undermined the kind of optimism about humanity and the universe that Pope and Leibniz had… — Nigel Warburton Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not… — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
“Throughout his life Leibniz nursed essentially the same dream: the dream of recalling the multiplicity of human knowledge to a logical, metaphysical,… — Maria Rosa Antognazza Copy Share Image
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“Leibniz used to discourse to Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia concerning the infinitely little, and how she would reply that on that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Leibniz was somewhat mean about money. When any young lady at the court of Hanover married, he used to give her what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
![“[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms, as essentially a deist. He is a determinist: there are no miracles (the events so called being merely instances of infrequently occurring natural laws); Christ has no…” quote by Peter Loptson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6d/peter-loptson-150065_deism_on-gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz-the-answer_3128811.jpg)
