“[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.” WorldScienceSpiritFoundWonderDivineNegativeIdealsRootsUnityAnalysisImaginarySublimeTranslationsOutletsIdeal WorldPortentsAmphibians Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.” WorldIdeasReasonChoicesUniverseFoundExistenceDegreesPerfectionClaimsDetermineSufficientProportionInfinity Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.” KindTwoIdeasReasonFactsScienceFoundSimpleImpossibleTruth IsOppositesPrimariesAnalysisReasoningSimple Ideas Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.” RealityFoundSourceAll ThingsEcologyInterconnectionDeep Ecology Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“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 material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.” RealityFoundMaterialsSourceWords Of WisdomActivityAll ThingsEssenceSubstanceInterconnection Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.” WayIdeasReasonFoundWords Of WisdomTruth IsMathematicsDefinitionsPracticalsPrimariesAnalysisAxiomsTheoremsCanon Author:Gottfried Leibniz
