Gottfried Leibniz Quotes on Knowledge
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a 17th-century German polymath and one of the leading rationalist philosophers of the early modern period. This page collects quotes attributed to Gottfried Leibniz on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gottfried Leibniz:
“There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.”
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Attributed to Gottfried Leibniz:
“Nothing happens without a sufficient reason.”
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Attributed to Gottfried Leibniz:
“Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.”
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Attributed to Gottfried Leibniz:
“There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”