Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to… — 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
Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite… — 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
