"To say that souls are <em>intelligent points</em> is to use an expression that is insufficiently exact. When I call them centers of concentrations of external things, I am speaking analogically."
Letter to Samuel Masson, on the Body
Leibniz, G. W. <u>Philosophical Essays</u>. Ed. and Trans. Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Co., 1989.