Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of… — 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
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the… — 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
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body.… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter.... Thus… — 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 Image
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 Image
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
