I don’t really eliminate body, but reduce it to what it is. For I show that corporeal mass, which is thought to have something over and above simple substances, is not a substance, but a phenomenon resulting from simple substances, which alone have unity and absolute reality.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes

He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order... is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

He who does not act does not exist.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Perceptions which are at present insensible may grow some day: nothing is useless, and eternity provides great scope for change.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It is true that the more we see some connection in what happens to us, the more we are confirmed in the opinion we have about the reality of our appearances; and it is also true that the more we examine our appearances closely, the more we find them well-sequenced, as microscopes and other aids in making experiments have shown us.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I have so many ideas that may perhaps be of some use in time if others more penetrating than I go deeply into them someday and join the beauty of their minds to the labour of mine.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It is true that as the empty voids and the dismal wilderness belong to zero, so the spirit of God and His light belong to the all-powerful One.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I don’t really eliminate body, but reduce it to what it is. For I show that corporeal mass, which is thought to have something over and above simple substances, is not a substance, but a phenomenon resulting from simple substances, which alone have unity and absolute reality.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

When the origin of remote peoples goes beyond history, our languages show themselves their oldest monuments.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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