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Substances Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
- 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.…
- But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
- Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether…
- And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
- I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of…
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