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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZAll things in God are spontaneous.
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What is is what must be.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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