Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Let there be two possible things, A and B, one of which is such that it is necessary that it exists, and… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share
