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

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Gottfried Wilhelm 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.

Gottfried Wilhelm 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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

And as every present state of a simple substance is naturally a consequence of its preceding state, so its present is pregnant with its future.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths, until we come to those which are primary.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz