28 Quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."