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.