Philosopher Quotes

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
There is no law governing all things.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Time takes all and gives all.
With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
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