Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology

  • Monadology: Monadology 56: "Now this interconnection, relationship, or this adaptation of all things to each particular one, and..."
  • Monadology: Monadology 61: "And compounds are in this respect analogous with [symbolisent avec] simple substances. For all is..."

The Monadology (La Monadologie, published in 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads.