God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

The present is great with the future.

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.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.