All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest… — 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
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's… — 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 Image
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 Image
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
