What is is what must be.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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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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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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