Gottfried wilhelm leibniz quotes

After completing his philosophical and legal education at Leipzig and Altdorf, Gottfried Leibniz spent several years as a diplomat in France, England, and Holland, where he became acquainted with the leading intellectuals of the age. He then settled in Hanover, where he devoted most of his adult life to the development of a comprehensive scheme for human knowledge, comprising logic, mathematics, philosophy, theology, history, and jurisprudence.

Although his own rationalism was founded upon an advanced understanding of logic, which Leibniz largely kept to himself, he did publish many less technical expositions of his results for the general public. These include a survey of the entire scheme in The New System of Nature (), a critical examination of Locke's philosophy in Nouveaux Essaies sur l'entendement humain (New Essays on Human Understanding) (), and an attempt to resolve several theological issues in the Théodicée (Theodicy) ().

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