I Do Not Conceive Of Any Reality

God's Relation To Spirits Is Not Like That Of A Craftsman To His Work, But Also Like That Of A Prince To His Subjects.

Reality Cannot Be Found Except In One Single Source, Because Of The Interconnection Of All Things With One Another.

The Knowledge Which We Have Acquired Ought Not To Resemble A Great Shop Without Order, And Without An Inventory; We Ought To Know What We Possess, And Be Able To Make It Serve Us In Need.

But In Simple Substances The Influence Of One Monad Over Another Is Ideal Only.

For, Above All, I Hold A Notion Of Possibility And Necessity According To Which There Are Some Things That Are Possible, But Yet Not Necessary, And Which Do Not Really Exist. From This It Follows That A Reason That Always Forces A Free Mind To Choose One Thing Over Another (whether That Reason Derives From The Perfection Of A Thing, As It Does In God, Or From Our Imperfection) Does Not Eliminate Our Freedom.