But In Simple Substances The

The Monad, Of Which We Shall Speak Here, Is Nothing But A Simple Substance Which Enters Into Compounds; Simple, That Is To Say, Without Parts.

All The Different Classes Of Beings Which Taken Together Make Up The Universe Are, In The Ideas Of God Who Knows Distinctly Their Essential Gradations, Only So Many Ordinates Of A Single Curve So Closely United That It Would Be Impossible To Place Others Between Any Two Of Them, Since That Would Imply Disorder And Imperfection. Thus Men Are Linked With The Animals, These With The Plants And These With The Fossils Which In Turn Merge With Those Bodies Which Our Senses And Our Imagination Represent To Us As Absolutely Inanimate.

Music Is A Secret And Unconscious Mathematical Problem Of The Soul.

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.

In Symbols One Observes An Advantage In Discovery Which Is Greatest When They Express The Exact Nature Of A Thing Briefly And, As It Were, Picture It; Then Indeed The Labor Of Thought Is Wonderfully Diminished.