"The monad, of which we shall speak here,……" — Gottfried Leibniz
"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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72 Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz has 72 quotes on this site.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only,…
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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…
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There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and…
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time:…
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of…
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this…
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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…
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much…
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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict…
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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More Compounds Quotes
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
— Athol Fugard
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer.…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children,…
— Charles Dickens
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I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which…
— Michael Faraday
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full…
— Freeman Dyson
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound…
— Fritjof Capra
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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