Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. Wikipedia

• Born: July 1, 1646, Leipzig, Germany

• Died: November 14, 1716, Hanover, Germany

• Parents: Friedrich Leibniz, Catharina Schmuck

• Education: Summer school, University of Jena, Leipzig University, University of Altdorf

Great Thoughts Of Leibniz

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

"The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future."

"To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love."

"I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil."

"Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity."

"The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery."

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

"Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced."