"During this entire period Leibniz read, wrote, and thought continually, pursuing ideas with a strength and intensity know to ordinary people only in their pursuit of wealth and power. His motto at the time was, "With every lost hour a part of life perishes.""
Leibniz is also a funny guy. The common folk can specialize in maybe one or two facets of intellectual pursuit, while Leibniz apparently specializes in nearly all of the intellectual avenues of his time. Perhaps his head was a lot bigger then everyone else. You would think he would need the extra space to store his large stores of multi-faceted knowledge.
My question involves Leibniz's motto. What did he mean by it? Did he mean to suggest that life is short and precious and that we must seize all opportunities to utilize it? Or did he mean that knowledge is lost to us by the second and we must waste no time to record it? Food for thought.
And now I present to you a small haiku dealing with Leibniz
I know lots of stuff
I seek knowledge in this life
My head is quite big
Or was that the haiku I wrote about Dave...
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