The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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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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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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