Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEvery present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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What is is what must be.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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