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Christian Wolff Quotes on Truth

Christian Wolff was a German philosopher, mathematician, and the most influential continental rationalist between Leibniz and Kant. This page collects quotes attributed to Christian Wolff on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Christian Wolff:

    “Philosophy is the science of all possible things insofar as they can be.”

  • Attributed to Christian Wolff:

    “Nothing exists without a sufficient reason for its being so rather than otherwise.”

  • Attributed to Christian Wolff:

    “Mathematics is the model of all genuine science.”

  • Attributed to Christian Wolff:

    “We must distinguish in order to unite.”

  • Attributed to Christian Wolff:

    “Reason and experience together yield the certainty of natural philosophy.”