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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

“Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.”

World Independent Substance Worlds Apart

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.”

Soul Dream Body Substance Consistent Rainbow

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.”

Way Soul Body Law Science Universe Given Principles Virtue Harmony Agree Unions Substance Agreement Mutual Representation Explaining

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

Simple Influence Ideals Philosophical Substance

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“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.”

Reality Found Materials Source Words Of Wisdom Activity All Things Essence Substance Interconnection

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.”

Reason Lying Source Words Of Wisdom Ultimate Substance Word Of God Differentiation

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

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

Simple Words Of Wisdom Originals Unity Primaries Substance

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“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.”

Mean Universe Simple Words Of Wisdom Connections Relation Mirrors Substance Perpetual

Author: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.”

Speak Simple Words Of Wisdom Substance Compounds

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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.”

Simple Words Of Wisdom Substance Collections Compounds

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“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.”

Way Mean Courses Simple Words Of Wisdom Substance

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“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.”

Way States Philosophy Bigs Natural Simple Consequence Substance Natural Consequences

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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