Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Substance Quotes

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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 call God.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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

These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.

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

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

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