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
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity. — 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
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
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
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
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. — 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
