There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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 substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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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 do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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