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title: "10 Simple Quotes By Gottfried Leibniz"
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> [Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/every-present-state-of-a-simple-substance-is-the-natural-consequence/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/thus-god-alone-is-the-primary-unity-or-original-simple-substance-from/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/the-monad-of-which-we-shall-speak-here-is-nothing-but-a-simple/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/and-there-must-be-simple-substances-because-there-are-compounds-for/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/there-is-no-way-in-which-a-simple-substance-could-begin-in-the-course/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/but-in-simple-substances-the-influence-of-one-monad-over-another-is/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/now-this-connection-or-adaption-of-all-created-things-with-each-and/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/finally-there-are-simple-ideas-of-which-no-definition-can-be-given/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/there-are-also-two-kinds-of-truths-those-of-reasoning-and-those-of-2/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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> [There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/there-are-also-two-kinds-of-truths-those-of-reasoning-and-those-of/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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## Other authors on Simple

## More by Gottfried Leibniz

> [There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/there-are-two-famous-labyrinths-where-our-reason-very-often-goes/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/either-there-are-no-corporeal-substances-and-bodies-are-merely/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/the-present-is-saturated-with-the-past-and-pregnant-with-the-future/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/make-me-the-the-master-of-education-and-i-will-undertake-to-change/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/all-the-different-classes-of-beings-which-taken-together-make-up-the/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/i-hold-that-the-mark-of-a-genuine-idea-is-that-its-possibility-can-be/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/the-monad-of-which-we-shall-speak-here-is-nothing-but-a-simple/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/there-is-no-way-in-which-a-simple-substance-could-begin-in-the-course/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/in-symbols-one-observes-an-advantage-in-discovery-which-is-greatest/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [There is nothing without reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/there-is-nothing-without-reason/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/god-possessing-supreme-and-infinite-wisdom-acts-in-the-most-perfect/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/it-can-have-its-effect-only-through-the-intervention-of-god-inasmuch/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/i-do-not-conceive-of-any-reality-at-all-as-without-genuine-unity/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/the-pleasure-we-obtain-from-music-comes-from-counting-but-counting/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gottfried-leibniz/if-we-were-magically-shrunk-and-put-into-someone-s-brain-while-she/)

[Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gottfried-leibniz/)

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