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“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

Philosophy Thought Metaphysics Epistemology Philosophy Of Mind

Book:New Essays on Human Understanding

Source: New Essays on Human Understanding

“... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.”

Philosophy Logic Reasoning Essays Leibniz English Translation Characteristica Universalis

Author:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it.”

Philosophy Thought Metaphysics Epistemology Philosophy Of Mind

Book:New Essays on Human Understanding

Source: New Essays on Human Understanding

“The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truths…”

Philosophy Thought Metaphysics Epistemology Philosophy Of Mind

Book:New Essays on Human Understanding

Source: New Essays on Human Understanding

“For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.”

Philosophy Thought Metaphysics Epistemology Philosophy Of Mind

Book:New Essays on Human Understanding

Source: New Essays on Human Understanding

“And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were as many different universes, which are however but different perspective representations of a single universe form the different point of view of each monad.”

Philosophy Metaphysics Monadology

Book:G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

Source: G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

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