Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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There is nothing without reason.
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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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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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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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