Quotes by : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection.....

…if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest....

The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them....

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

The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if....

If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.....

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

Nihil est sine ratione.[There is nothing without a reason.]

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

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

And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it....