monad

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever may be the ultimate force which actuates this monad, the manifestations of its presence and the result of its energy are seen externally.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Garner, Richard Lynch

The individual is thus a monad which is inwardly aware of its actuality—a genius which beholds itself.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

It is possible to think of the soul as a reincarnating entity, whether it be a monad, duad, triad, or septenary being.

From Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect by Atkinson, William Walker