"Finally there are simple ideas of which no……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
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Gottfried Leibniz
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72 Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only,…
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the…
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There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and…
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time:…
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of…
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this…
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely…
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much…
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict…
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove…
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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of…
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws…
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and…
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