Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZOur reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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 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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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What is is what must be.
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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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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 pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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