Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTaking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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