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Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

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Famous Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

“There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.”

“Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.”