“This connection of all created things with every single one of them and their adaptation to every single one, as well as the connection and adaptation of every single thing to all others, has the result that every single substance stands in relations which express all the others. Whence every single substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.” RecursionMonadologySelf Similarity Book:Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays Source: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
“Now, since in the divine ideas there is an infinity of possible universes of which only one can exist, the choice made by God must have a sufficient reason which determines him to the one rather than to another. This reason can be found only in fitness, that is, in the degree of perfection contained in these worlds. For each possible has a right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves. Thus nothing is entirely arbitrary.” TheologyMonadologySufficient Reason Book:Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays Source: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
“The present state of a single substance is the natural result of its precedent state, so much so that the present is pregnant with the future.” Monadology Book:Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays Source: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays