One might say "that there are truths engraved in the soul which it has never known, and even ones which it will never know"
— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Place of Publication
Amsterdam and Leipzig
Publisher
Chez Jean Schreuder
Date
1765
Metaphor
One might say "that there are truths engraved in the soul which it has never known, and even ones which it will never know"
Metaphor in Context
PHIL.
On that view of the matter, one will be able to say that there are truths engraved in the soul which it has never known, and even ones which it will never know; and that appears strange to me.
(p. 79)
On that view of the matter, one will be able to say that there are truths engraved in the soul which it has never known, and even ones which it will never know; and that appears strange to me.
(p. 79)
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Citation
Written 1703-1705. Published by R. E. Raspe in 1765.
See Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain in Oeuvres Philosophiques (Amsterdam and Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765). <Link to Google Books>
Reading a modern translation: New Essays on Human Understanding. trans. and ed. by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).
See Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain in Oeuvres Philosophiques (Amsterdam and Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765). <Link to Google Books>
Reading a modern translation: New Essays on Human Understanding. trans. and ed. by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).
Date of Entry
06/01/2005
