Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
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He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The present is big with the future.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
(Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
It is true that the more we see some connection in what happens to us, the more we are confirmed in the opinion we have about the reality of our appearances; and it is also true that the more we examine our appearances closely, the more we find them well-sequenced, as microscopes and other aids in making experiments have shown us.
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— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
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“As far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it ...”
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“... every feeling is the perception of a truth ...”
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— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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