There is nothing without a reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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What is is what must be.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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