It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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