Quotes by
Gottfried Leibnitz |
1646-1716 , German philosopher & mathematician
One of the most important philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. He is considered the last, chronologically, to deserve the title homo universalis. He occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics having developed the differential and integral calculus independently of Newton. He has been described as “the most learned man since Aristotle”. | 14 quotes | 541 visits |
Quotations
| • | To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. 3 |
| • | A great doctor kills more people than a great general. 2 |
| • | This is the best of all possible worlds. 2 |
| • | Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible. 1 |
| • | The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. |
| • | Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. |
| • | He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. |
| • | There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. |
| • | Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. |
| • | Why is there something rather than nothing? |
| • | Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself. |
| • | Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything. |
| • | There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. |
Latin Quotes
| • | There is nothing without a reason. Nihil est sine ratione. |
