But In Simple Substances The Influence Of

The Present Is Big With The Future, The Future Might Be Read In The Past, The Distant Is Expressed In The Near.

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.

I Am So In Favor Of The Actual Infinite That Instead Of Admitting That Nature Abhors It, As Is Commonly Said, I Hold That Nature Makes Frequent Use Of It Everywhere, In Order To Show More Effectively The Perfections Of Its Author.

He Who Hasn't Tasted Bitter Things Hasn't Earned Sweet Things.

Whence It Follows That God Is Absolutely Perfect, Since Perfection Is Nothing But Magnitude Of Positive Reality, In The Strict Sense, Setting Aside The Limits Or Bounds In Things Which Are Limited.