There is nothing without reason.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIf you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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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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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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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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