Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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The present is great with the future.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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