There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter.... Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

All things in God are spontaneous.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

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.