Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
What is is what must be.
Nature does not make leaps.
We live in the best of all possible worlds
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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.
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive.
All things in God are spontaneous.
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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.
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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.
The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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