Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
G.K. ChestertonTag: humor religion leibniz watchmaker
Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another. -- Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73
Gilles DeleuzeTag: morality ethics leibniz deleuze
Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary.
Gottfried Wilhelm von LeibnizTag: statistics leibniz regression induction
Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)
Gilles DeleuzeTag: leibniz mouvement deleuze immobile paradoxe
[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]
The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms, as essentially a deist. He is a determinist: there are no miracles (the events so called being merely instances of infrequently occurring natural laws); Christ has no real role in the system; we live forever, and hence we carry on after our deaths, but then everything — every individual substance — carries on forever.
Tag: reason deism leibniz scientist natural-laws determinist leibniz-religious-beliefs no-miracles
Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.
Shelby D. HuntTag: progress liberal deism reasoning pantheism views enlightenment leibniz baruch-spinoza spinoza optimist scientist gottfried-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz scientific-progress
Nihil est sine ratione.
[There is nothing without a reason.]
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method—more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records—of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.
Nicholas Murray ButlerTag: science reason philosophy philosophers scientists isaac-newton newton leibniz mathematics geometry descartes calculus sylvester supremacy gauss carl-friedrich-gauss gottfried-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz analytical-geometry lobachevsky rene-descartes riemann
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