“ If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ …if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimede… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truth… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ ...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it... Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
