Quotes Gottfried Leibniz

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural conseq...

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over ano...

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be...

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a phy...

God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance...

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and cons...

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine u...

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibili...

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immater...

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For t...

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God,...

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural cha...

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish prop...

It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and ...

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perc...

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counti...

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor s...

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substa...

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and t...

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in t...

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a nece...

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by...

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perf...

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from ...