259 ;;Quote: a monad has no parts, it is eternal; only its internal qualities and actions change; i.e., its perceptions of the external and its appetitions of these perceptions

259 ;;Quote: every composite substance has a single monad at its center and an infinity of monads as its body

259+;;Quote: every organic body is a natural machine in its entirety and in its smallest parts

259 ;;Quote: every body acts on every other; everything is linked

259+;;Quote: every monad is a living mirror; representing the universe with its own point of view; orderly

259 ;;Quote: perceptions arise from the final causes of good and evil, while external phenomena arise from the efficient causes of motions

259+;;Quote: pre-established, perfect harmony between the final causes of monads and the efficient causes of bodies; body and soul can not change the laws of the other

260 ;;Quote: a living substance is a monad with its body; infinite levels of life

260 ;;Quote: an animal is a soul with memory and feelings; distinct perceptions

260+;;Quote: mind is a soul with reason

260 ;;Quote: perception is the internal state that represents external things, while consciousness is the reflective knowledge of that internal state

260+;;Quote: while souls have perceptions, they may not have consciousness of those perceptions; Descartes mistakenly regarded such perceptions as nothing

264 ;;Quote: every soul knows everything past and future, but confusedly; like the sound of the sea containing every wave; only God has distinct knowledge