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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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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’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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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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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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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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