G. W. Leibniz's Monadology Quotes

“This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

“For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

“And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were as many different universes, which are however but different perspective representations of a single universe form the different point of view of each monad.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

“[...] 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.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

“[...] Et celui de la raison suffisante, en vertu duquel nous considérons qu’aucun fait ne saurait se trouver vrai, ou existant, aucune énonciation véritable, sans qu’il y ait une raison suffisante pourquoi il en soit ainsi et non pas autrement. Quoique ces raisons le plus souvent ne puissent point nous être connues.
[sect. 32]”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students