Gottfried Leibniz Cards

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: I really believe that languages are the best mirror of the human mind and that a precise analysis of the meanings of words would tell us more than anything else about the operations of the understanding.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Pour ce qui est des connaissances non-écrites qui se trouvent dispersées parmi les hommes de différents professions, je suis persuadé qu’ils passent de beaucoup tant à l'égard de la multitude que de l'importance, tout ce qui se trouve marqué dans les livres, et que la meilleure partie de notre trésor n'est pas encore enregistrée.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Il y a aussi deux sortes de vérités, celles de Raisonnement et celle de Fait. Les vérités de Raisonnement sont nécessaires et leur opposé est impossible, et celles de Fait sont contingentes et leur opposé est possible.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Or, comme il y a une infinité d'univers possibles dans les idées de Dieu, et qu'il n'en peut exister qu'un seul, il faut qu'il y ait une raison suffisante du choix de Dieu qui le détermine à l'un plutôt qu'à l'autre. Et cette raison ne peut se trouver que dans la convenance, dans les degrés de perfection que ces mondes contiennent, chaque possible ayant droit de prétendre à l'existence à mesure de la perfection qu'il enveloppe.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Nature does not make leaps.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Omne possibile exigit existere.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: La nature ne fait jamais des sauts.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German polymath, was a prominent philosopher, mathematician, and logician. Known for his calculus, binary system, and principle of sufficient reason, his contributions spanned multiple disciplines and laid the foundation for modern computer science and logic.

Description: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz quote: 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.