Nothing Is Necessitated Whose Opposite Is Possible.

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.

There Are Two Famous Labyrinths Where Our Reason Very Often Goes Astray. One Concerns The Great Question Of The Free And The Necessary, Above All In The Production And The Origin Of Evil. The Other Consists In The Discussion Of Continuity, And Of The Indivisibles Which Appear To Be The Elements Thereof, And Where The Consideration Of The Infinite Must Enter In.

We May Say, That Not Only The Soul (the Mirror Of An Indestructible Universe) Is Indestructible, But Also The Animal Itself Is, Although Its Mechanism Is Frequently Destroyed In Parts.

The Pleasure We Obtain From Music Comes From Counting, But Counting Unconsciously. Music Is Nothing But Unconscious Arithmetic.

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.