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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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If 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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Animal Clear Different Form Ideas Science Soul Yourself
There is nothing without a reason.
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Philosophy Reason
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Act Man Memories Practice Principle Theory
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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Future Present Simplicity State Way
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Chaos Confusion Death Save Universe Wasted
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Exception God Independent Substance World
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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Animal Forever Infinity Knowledge Mindset Necessary Soul Truth
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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Demand Existence Possible
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Doctor General Greatness People
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Happiness. Pleasure Love
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Future Past Pregnant Present
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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Clear Fake Ideas Imagination Intellectual Man True
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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Evidence Hold Myself Perfection Understand

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