Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz

…a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Ideas

Imagination

Men

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Differentiation

Lying

Words Of Wisdom

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

Roots

Science

Sublime

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

Death

Doctors

People

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God’s making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

God

Moving

Wind

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.

Animal

Men

Taken

All things in God are spontaneous.

All Things

Spontaneous

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Dream

Life

Real

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Simple

Substance

Words Of Wisdom

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

Philosophical

Simple

Substance

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Agreement

All Things

Amphibians

Analysis

Animal

Arithmetic

Art

Assuming

Atheism

Atoms

Beauty

Believe

Bigs

Bitter

Body

Book

Brain

Causes

Cemetery

Certain

Changing The World

Chaos

Charity

Cheese

Choices

Complaining

Conformity

Confusion

Consideration

Craftsman

Death

Decay

Defining

Delight

Delighted

Demand

Destiny

Development

Differences

Different

Differentiation

Discovery

Doctors

Doe

Done

Dots

Dream

Dust

Easy

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Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz

…a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

All things in God are spontaneous.

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

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