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

“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

“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

“[...] 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

“[...] 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

“67. Chaque portion de la matière peut être conçue comme un jardin plein de plantes, et comme un étang plein de poissons. Mais chaque rameau de la plante, chaque membre de l'animal, chaque goutte de ses humeurs est encore un tel jardin ou un tel étang.

68. Et quoique la terre et l'air interceptés entre les plantes du jardin, ou l'eau interceptée entre les poissons de l'étang, ne soient point plante ni poisson, ils en contiennent pourtant encore, mais le plus souvent d'une subtilité à nous imperceptible.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, The Monadology