“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.” KnowsMenTwoIdeasDifferentBodyWould BeTogetherTurnsUniverseImaginationAnimalUnitedClassTakenImpossibleEssentialsPlantSensesDisorderImperfectionLinkedCurvesFossils Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.” MenBookDifferentWealthGreaterCallingImportanceConvincedQuantityUnwritten Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.” IfsMenShouldWholeDesireOrderUniverseCausesImpossibleParticularMastersOughtAimFinalsArchitectEfficientExceedWisestWisest Man Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.” IfsMenScienceUsedHoursLosesLaborMachinesSlaveExcellentCalculationsUnworthy Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.” MenMemoriesPrinciplesPracticeTheoryPerceptionMereArisePhysiciansSequenceBrutes Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.” MenMadeIdeasGivenImaginationClearToo MuchWords Of WisdomDistinctionReinsPretextTrue And False Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.” MenTimeAchievementMathematicsMathAdmireMathematicalAdmiration Author:Gottfried Leibniz
