Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.