Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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 am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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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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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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Nature does not make leaps.
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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