Compounds Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature…

— 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

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

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

— Gottfried Leibniz

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would…

— Gottfried Leibniz

A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, "It lightens and it thunders ," is conjunctive, "It lightens or it…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The dyad gets its name from passing through or asunder; for the dyad is the first to have separated itself from the monad, whence…

— Iamblichus

“There is in God something analogous to “society”. He is not a single person, loving himself alone, not a self-contained monad or “The One”.…

— Kallistos Ware

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are…

— John Green

When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession…

— Henri Poincare

“a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing”

— Martin Luther

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

— Robert Smithson