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Gottfried Leibniz

German Philosopher

Born: Jul 1, 1646

Died: Nov 14, 1716

Also Being Changes Exists God Nature

Related authors: Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant Karl Marx Martin Heidegger Meister Eckhart Oswald Spengler

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz

Music Mind Pleasure Counting Without Human Being Experiences Human Mind Aware

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. Gottfried Leibniz

God Lie Changes Must Only Call Ultimate Source Exists Substance Which Reason Differentiation Things Necessary

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. Gottfried Leibniz

God Rest Beginning Intervention Rightly Only Through Demands Ideas Effect Itself Regard Inasmuch Should Monad Things

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof. Gottfried Leibniz

Simple Word Finally Definition Proof Given Primary Ideas Also Principles Proved Cannot Which Axiom Need

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. Gottfried Leibniz

Immaterial General Maintain Conceived Also Without Material Any Essence Substance Substances Being Cannot Whether Bare Activity

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. Gottfried Leibniz

Natural Cause Changes Unable Would Would-Be Follows Since Come Principle Said Just Being Influence Internal Inner External

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. Gottfried Leibniz

Nature Experience Cause Mark Possibility Fact Idea Conceiving Genuine Proved In Fact Hold Either Us Teaches Reason

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