Quotes Tagged With :leibniz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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