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- Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz
- When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. — Gottfried Leibniz
- I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. — Gottfried Leibniz
- The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. — Gottfried Leibniz
- 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
- 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. — Gottfried Leibniz