Monads Quotes

#1. It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.

Gottfried Leibniz

#2. The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Andre Maurois

#3. Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

#4. Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

Voltaire

#5. In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

Barry Mazur

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

Gottfried Leibniz

#7. You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Appreciate your friends and loved ones. There's no way of knowing what's coming next, so appreciate those who are close to you.

Lenny Jacobson

#10. Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.

Andre Gide

#11. I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#12. Ryan rolled his eyes. Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.

Rachel Hawkins