Home / Quotes / Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

“In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.”

Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Author

Gottfried Leibniz

German mathematician, philosopher, historian, and inventor. Gottfried Leibniz is one of the founders of calculus and has made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy, history, and other fields. more

You May Also Like

“When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.”

Self Moving Realizing Fairs Moving Forward Self Indulgent

Author:David Hasselhoff

“Nature does not make leaps.”

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.”

Universe Waste Chaos Appearance Confusion

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.”

Form Order Small Parts

Book:Protogaea

Source: Protogaea

“All things in God are spontaneous.”

All Things Spontaneous

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.”

Might Perfect Infinite Supreme Excellent Enlightened Conformity Possessing Perfect Man

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.”

Sweet Bitter Sweet Things

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.”

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.”

Humans Long Has Beens Soul Ends Body Given Poor Mass Ridiculous Globes Interfere Human Body Trifling Stingy

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.”

Humans Soul Seems Natural Materials Decay Human Soul

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays