Quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) — Philosoph · Lutherisch · Deutschland

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) war ein deutscher Philosoph, Mathematiker und Universalgelehrter der frühen Neuzeit, der vor allem in Hannover wirkte. Bekannt ist er für die Entwicklung des Dualsystems und der Infinitesimalrechnung sowie für seine philosophische Verteidigung der Schöpfung als „beste aller möglichen Welten“. Für Bibelleser bleibt er vor allem als Begründer der modernen Theodizee-Debatte relevant, die das Spannungsfeld zwischen dem biblischen Gottesbild und dem realen Leid in der Welt rational zu erklären suchte.

Era: Revival & the 19th Century

Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Wisdom & Understanding, Faith & Trust, Love, Church & Congregation, Doubt & Hard Questions, Justice & Commitment, Hope & Confidence

Quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I do what I can, and even if no success is granted to me, I will still be content. God will accomplish his holy will, and I have done my duty.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

To love is to find one's own happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It suffices, then, to have this trust in God: that he does everything for the best, and that nothing can harm those who love him.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I regard heaven as my fatherland, and all well-meaning people as its fellow citizens.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Whoever believes nothing in divine matters except what he can measure with his own understanding diminishes the idea of God.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

My intention is to free people from the false notions that present God as an absolute ruler, exercising despotic power, ill-suited and unworthy to be loved.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

As God calculates and carries out his thoughts, the world comes into being.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Eternal peace fits well as an inscription over cemetery gates; for only the dead no longer fight.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Whoever has taught their pupils the ABC has accomplished a greater deed than the general who has won a battle.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Divine, absolute justice is nothing other than a love conformed to wisdom.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Neither honor, wealth, beauty, nor anything else of that kind subject to change is in the least suited to make a marriage lastingly happy.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

We are freer the more we act according to reason, and more enslaved the more we let ourselves be governed by passions.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Order, proportion, harmony enchant us... God is pure order. He is the author of universal harmony.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

A great success is a great danger.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Whoever underestimates the immense importance of religion, despite all enlightenment, only plays into the hands of superstition.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Because justice demands seeking another's good for its own sake, and because seeking another's good for its own sake means loving them, it follows from the nature of justice that it is love.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Every lover seeks the good of the beloved person as such.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

How lovable the unity of the church is, and what grave harm arises from the division of the church, sensible men who have even a little feeling for piety will not deny.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

God would not have created the world if it were not, among all possible worlds, the best.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I come to philosophy only as one must arrange and pursue it — equally for the sake of truth and for the sake of Christianity.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I begin as a philosopher and end as a theologian. One of my great principles is this, that nothing happens without a reason. That is a principle of philosophy. But at bottom this is nothing other than the acknowledgment of divine wisdom, though I do not speak of it first.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The true purpose of religion should be to impress the principles of morality deeply upon the soul.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

God is the ultimate reason of things, and knowledge of him is thus the principle of all science, just as his essence and his will are the principles of things.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I confess to you quite readily that I would wish, at any possible price, to be in communion with the Roman church, if only I could attain it with a true peace of mind and that peace of conscience which I presently enjoy.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Love is universal benevolence, and benevolence is a disposition toward love.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Miracles are in harmony with the general order, even if they violate subordinate maxims.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

A part of life perishes every time an hour is squandered.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Most people are not in earnest. They have not tasted the truth and are caught in an eerie unbelief.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

It is indeed a great benefit of God that he has given his church the power to forgive and to retain sins, a power which the church exercises through the priests, whose office therefore cannot be despised without sin.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Those who do not love the unity of the church do not have God's love.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

God delights in odd numbers.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

With the cessation of the fear of God begins the unleashing of the passions and the rule of a disposition that will flood the world with a deluge of blood.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Sources: wikipedia.org, lernhelfer.de, philomag.de, spektrum.de

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