Body Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is…

— Iamblichus

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which…

— Gottfried Leibniz

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only…

— Gottfried Leibniz

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

— Gottfried Leibniz

As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t…

— John Cage

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

— Anthony Horowitz

“As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out, Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose…

— Christopher Ryan

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

— Immanuel Kant

There is always some madness in love.

— Friedrich Nietzsche