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German mathematician, philosopher, historian, and inventor. Gottfried Leibniz is one of the founders of calculus and has made significant contributions to mathematics, philosophy, history, and other fields.

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Famous Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

“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.”

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Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.”

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Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

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

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“Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.”

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“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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“And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.”

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“There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.”

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“Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.”

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Book:The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics

Source: The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics

About the Author

Born: July 1, 1646
Died: November 14, 1716
Known for: Mathematician
Quotes: 120

Books & Sources

Leibniz: Philosophical EssaysRelated source material

Discourse on Metaphysics and the MonadologyRelated source material

Leibniz: Political WritingsRelated source material

New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German WriteenRelated source material

ProtogaeaRelated source material

The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on MetaphysicsRelated source material

The monadology and other philosophical writingsRelated source material

The philosophical works of Leibnitz .Related source material

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