I Hold That It Is Only When

Of What Use Would It Be To You, Sir, To Become King Of China On Condition That You Forgot What You Have Been? Would It Not Be The Same As If God, At The Same Time He Destroyed You, Created A King In China?

Music Is A Secret And Unconscious Mathematical Problem Of The Soul.

Now, As There Is An Infinity Of Possible Universes In The Ideas Of God, And As Only One Of Them Can Exist, There Must Be A Sufficient Reason For God's Choice, Which Determines Him Toward One Rather Than Another. And This Reason Can Be Found Only In The Fitness, Or The Degrees Of Perfection, That These Worlds Contain, Since Each Possible Thing Has The Right To Claim Existence In Proportion To The Perfection It Involves.

...a Distinction Must Be Made Between True And False Ideas, And That Too Much Rein Must Not Be Given To A Man's Imagination Under Pretext Of Its Being A Clear And Distinct Intellection.

Nothing Is Necessitated Whose Opposite Is Possible.