Gottfried Leibniz

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Biography : German polymath and philosopher.
Born: 1646 - Died: 1716
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Gottfried Leibniz - Quotes

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Nature does not make jumps.
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nature

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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The present is big with the future; the future could be read in the past; the distant is expressed in the near.
Gottfried Leibniz - Principes de la nature et de la grâce /

Everything is ordered in things once and for all, with as much order and agreement as possible.
Gottfried Leibniz - Principes de la nature et de la grâce /

order

Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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existence

So far we have just spoken as simple physicists; now we must rise to metaphysics, by making use of the great principle, little used, commonly, that nothing takes place without sufficient reason, that is, that nothing happens without it being possible for someone who knows enough things to give a reason sufficient to determine why it is so and not otherwise.
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz

perfection