Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes

Biography: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is known for his contributions to calculus i... more Biography: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is known for his contributions to calculus independent of Isaac Newton. A polymath born in 1646 in Leipzig, Germany, he made advances in mathematics, philosophy, and engineering. His works include developing the binary number system and theoretical foundations of computers. less

"The actual is the possible in so far as it is determined.""The monads are the true atoms of nature.""The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.""This is the best of all possible worlds.""He who has not early sown in his mind the seeds of truth will hear many things that will seem true but are false and will thereby incur grave damage.""There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact.""Nature never makes leaps.""I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.""Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself.""Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good.""There is nothing without a reason.""Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.""The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently, as in its source.""It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean.""The present is big with the future.""He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.""Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.""To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."

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