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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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 substance has relations…
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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 say, without parts.
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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 means of compounding.
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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 is big with…
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Gottfried Leibniz has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those…
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another....
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and…
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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…
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it…
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than…
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to…
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that…
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better…
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting…
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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