Leibniz, the last ‘universal genius’, was born 376 years ago. seven dates.

July 1 () –

This July 1 marks the 376th anniversary of the birth of the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, recognized as the ‘last universal genius’: no one else was able to sufficiently know all the fields of knowledge afterwards.

Polymath, mathematician, logician, theologian, jurist, librarian and politician, this German thinker born in 1646 He made deep 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 thought, it is worth collecting these seven quotes.

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

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

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

— “There is nothing without a reason.”

— “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

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

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