Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe 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.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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