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...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Knowledge Life Of The Mind Philosophy

For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Growth Life And Death Philosophy

…every feeling is the perception of a truth...

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Epistemology Metaphysics Philosophy Philosophy Of Mind Thought

The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Epistemology Metaphysics Philosophy Philosophy Of Mind Thought

The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truths…

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Epistemology Metaphysics Philosophy Philosophy Of Mind Thought

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Epistemology Metaphysics Philosophy Philosophy Of Mind Thought

…if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes…

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Ethics Moral Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy Of Mind

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Logic Metaphysics Philosophy

And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were as many different universes, which are however but different perspective representations of a single universe form the different point of view of each monad.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Metaphysics Monadology Philosophy
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