Gottfried Leibniz

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. - Gottfried Wilhelm

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. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (German

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (German Philosopher)The Smoke Mirrors your Reflective Qualities - Another planksip® Möbius

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that

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

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. - Gottfried Wilhelm

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (German Philosopher)For the Love of Learning Already - Another planksip® Möbius

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (German Philosopher)Dualistic Monism is a Contradiction in Terms - Another planksip® Möbius