It is 307 years since the death of Leibniz, the last ‘universal genius’

2023-11-14 12:38:53

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – JENIKIRBYHISTORY.GETARCHIVE.NET

MADRID, 14 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

This November 14 marks 307 years since the death, in 1716, of the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, recognized as the ‘last universal genius’: No one else could later sufficiently know all the fields of knowledge.

Polymath, mathematician, logician, theologian, jurist, librarian and politician, this German thinker born in 1646 made profound and important contributions in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence and history. As a synthesis of his thoughts, these seven quotes are worth collecting.

— “This is the best of all possible worlds.”

— “He who has not tasted the bitter has not gained the sweet.”

— “Music is the hidden arithmetic exercise of a mind unaware that it is calculating.”

— “There is nothing without a reason.”

— “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

— “For all bodies are in perpetual flow like rivers, and parts enter and leave them continually.”

— “Every feeling is the perception of a truth.”