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Category Archive: 1646

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “Now where there are no parts…”

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.

July 7, 2021 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “But in simple substances the influence…”

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

February 11, 2021 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “I do not conceive of any…”

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

December 27, 2020 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “It can have its effect only…”

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.

November 25, 2020 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “Music is the pleasure the human…”

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

November 24, 2020 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “It follows from what we have…”

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.

October 7, 2020 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “I maintain also that substances, whether…”

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.

February 9, 2020 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “When a truth is necessary, the…”

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.

December 27, 2019 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “Indeed every monad must be different…”

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.

December 9, 2019 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

Gottfried Leibniz Quote: “For since it is impossible for…”

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

October 8, 2019 1646, German, Gottfried Leibniz, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers

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