Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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What is is what must be.
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