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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know 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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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