Quotes Tagged With :leibniz

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human....

[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at....

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous....

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas,....

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz,....

Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they....

Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding....

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

Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression,....

From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted....