_THE_IDEA_IS_A_MONAD_THE_BEING_THAT_ENTERS_INTO_IT_WITH_ITS_PAST_AND_SUBSEQUENT_HISTROY_BRINGS—CONCEALED_IN_ITS_OWN_FORM—AN_INDISTINCT_ABBREVIATION_ON_THE_REST_OF_THE_WORLD_OF_IDEAS_JUST_AS_ACCORDING_TO_LIEBNIZ'S_DISCOURSE_ON_METAPHYSICS_(1686)_EVERY_SINGLE_MONAD_CONTAINS—IN_AN_INDISTINCT_WAY—ALL_THE_OTHERS_
Walter Benjamin, from the « Epistemo-Critical Prologue » of Origin of German Tragic Drama, Verso (1998)
