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
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
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas… — 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
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
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to… — 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
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
![“These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony…” quote by Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/976/gottfried-leibniz-3585_agree_these-principles-have-given-me-a-way-of_2051720.jpg)
