Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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 most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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What is is what must be.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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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.
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