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.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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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.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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