Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

best world possible leibniz

“This is the best of all possible worlds.”

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

present future big

“The present is big with the future.”

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

Nihil est sine ratione

“Nihil est sine ratione"

("There is nothing without a reason")

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

nothing necessity opposite possible

“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

understanding senses

“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 (1646-1716)

slaves machines men

“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used".

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

(Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)

music arithmetic mind

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

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

Omnibus ex nihilo ducendis sufficit unum

"Omnibus ex nihilo ducendis sufficit unum"

(“To produce everything out of nothing, one is sufficient”)

― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)