“I have so many ideas that may perhaps be of some use in time if others more penetrating than I go deeply into them someday and join the beauty of their minds to the labour of mine.”
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“I don't really eliminate body, but reduce it to what it is. For I show that corporeal mass, which is thought to have something over and above simple substances, is not a substance, but a phenomenon resulting from simple substances, which alone have unity and absolute reality.”
― Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
― Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
“imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.”
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“[...] we can find no true or existent fact, no true assertion, without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise, although most of the time these reasons cannot be known to us.”
― G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students
― G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students
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