Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThere 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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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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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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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There is nothing without reason.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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