Quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding
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![The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/28/99/289903_0.jpg "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, New Essays on Human Understanding")
![The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the si — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/28/99/289905_0.jpg "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, New Essays on Human Understanding")
![For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding](https://quotesread.com/uploads/quotes/0/28/99/289906_0.jpg "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, New Essays on Human Understanding")
