Single Idea 12935

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / f. Emotion and reason]

Full Idea

Every feeling is the perception of a truth.

Gist of Idea

Every feeling is the perception of a truth

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 1.02)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.94


A Reaction

I wouldn't say feelings ARE perceptions of truths, but I might say that every experience we have has an intellectual dimension as well as an emotional one. Our beliefs drift and solidify in just the same way that feelings do.