Monads have no windows through which anything can enter or leave.

Les monades n'ont point de fenetres par lesquelles quelque chose y puisse entrer ou sortir.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Born 1646 in Leipzig, Leibniz was the last of the great rationalists alongside Descartes and Spinoza. He wrote the Monadology and Theodicy, discovered calculus independently of Newton (giving us d and the integral.

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Source: Monadologie (1714), §7Verified

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Other Quotes

This world is the best of all possible worlds.

Let us calculate.

Nothing is without a reason why it should be rather than not be.

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