“We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.” IfsMindReasonUnderstoodInfiniteSeriesStrokesDemonstration Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.” MindDoeReasonForceOne ThingPossibilityPerfectionNotionImperfection Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” MindHumansSciencePleasureMusicMusic IsMathematicsMathMathematicalHuman MindCountingMath And ScienceMathematics And ScienceNumbers And MathMath LoveMath And LoveMath And Music Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.” ShouldMindGodScienceNatureNaturalGreatnessFiniteMajesty Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.” WayMindScienceWonderfulDiscoveryLabourFacilitate Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.” GivingMindSoulReasonAnimalWords Of WisdomEternalMereRational Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.” MindIntellectualCapacityHorizon Author:Gottfried Leibniz
