“I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.” RealityWords Of WisdomUnityGenuine Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.” Words Of Wisdom Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.” WayOrderProgressWords Of WisdomGainsGood ThingsCertaintyPropositions Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.” MenMadeIdeasGivenImaginationClearToo MuchWords Of WisdomDistinctionReinsPretextTrue And False 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
“I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.” IdeasReasonFactsCausesTeachPossibilityWords Of WisdomMarkGenuineConceiving Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.” KnowsLittlesImportantPainOrderPleasureCommonWords Of WisdomProveResearchAgreeConsiderationHerds Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.” GivingMindSoulReasonAnimalWords Of WisdomEternalMereRational 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
“..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.” ReasonLyingSourceWords Of WisdomUltimateSubstanceWord Of GodDifferentiation Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.” SimpleWords Of WisdomOriginalsUnityPrimariesSubstance 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.” MeanUniverseSimpleWords Of WisdomConnectionsRelationMirrorsSubstancePerpetual 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.” SpeakSimpleWords Of WisdomSubstanceCompounds Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.” SimpleWords Of WisdomSubstanceCollectionsCompounds Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.” Words Of WisdomShapesElementsAtomsExtensions 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.” WayMeanCoursesSimpleWords Of WisdomSubstance Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.” TwoDifferentDifferencesQualityWords Of WisdomInternals Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.” SubjectsWords Of WisdomGranted Author:Gottfried Leibniz
