"God always chooses the best, and there is no other reason for his choice than the perfection of the chosen."

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

"imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being."

"God is an absolutely perfect being."

"Every present state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future."