Philosophical Essays Quotes

“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, Philosophical Essays

“The present is big with the future.”
― Leibniz., Philosophical Writings

“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, Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“For I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibniz: Philosophical Essays