It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.