“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.” FightingWords Of WisdomShadowInjusticeSettingSettingsSubstanceCombatDefeatedBleak House Book:Bleak House Source: Bleak House
“... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.” KindPrinciplesWords Of WisdomActivitySubstance Author:Aristotle
“But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.” PhilosophyWords Of WisdomDestructionSubstanceHey You Author:Aristotle
“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
“..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
“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