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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.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Mathematics Music Myself Problem Secret Soul Unconscious
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Taking 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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Beginning Better Live Mathematics Time World
I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand
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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Demonstration Full God Lying Mindset Perfection Reason Truth Understand
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Divine Imagination Number Spirit Wonderful
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Dreams Enough Life Myself Reality
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Beginning Form Nature Simplicity Substance Way
It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Choice Easy Original Wisdom
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Change Education Master Myself World
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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God Miracle Order Power Thinking Wisdom
God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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God Himself Relationship Spirit Subject Work
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
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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Capacity Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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Accomplishment Greatness Law Myself Nature
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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Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
There is nothing without reason.
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Karma One Liner Reason
I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Animal Myself Ordinary System
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor General Greatness People
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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