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Simple Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
- There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths…
- But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
- Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
- Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations…
- The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
- And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
- There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
- Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with…
- Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which…
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