#monadology

And in consequence, all bodies feel the effects of everything that happens in the universe. Accordingly, someone who sees all could read in each all that happens throughout, and even what has happened or will happen, observing in the present that which is remote, be it in time or in place. Sympnoia panta, all things conspire, as Hippocrates said. But a soul can read in itself only that which is represented distinctly there; it cannot unfold all-at-once all of its complications, because they extend to infinity.

– Leibniz, Monadology #61