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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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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 do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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