It's Easier To Be Original And Foolish

Thus God Alone Is The Primary Unity, Or Original Simple Substance, From Which All Monads, Created And Derived, Are Produced.

I Have Seen Something Of The Project Of M. De St. Pierre, For Maintaining A Perpetual Peace In Europe. I Am Reminded Of A Device In A Cemetery, With The Words: Pax Perpetua ; For The Dead Do Not Fight Any Longer: But The Living Are Of Another Humor; And The Most Powerful Do Not Respect Tribunals At All.

There Is A World Of Created Beings - Living Things, Animals, Entelechies, And Souls - In The Least Part Of Matter.... Thus There Is Nothing Waste, Nothing Sterile, Nothing Dead In The Universe; No Chaos, No Confusions, Save In Appearance.

In My Judgment An Organic Machine New To Nature Never Arises, Since It Always Contains An Infinity Of Organs So That It Can Express, In Its Own Way, The Whole Universe; Indeed, It Always Contains All Past And Present Times.

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