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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / f. Emotion and reason

12935	Every feeling is the perception of a truth [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Every feeling is the perception of a truth.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 1.02)
	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.