Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZI have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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The present is great with the future.
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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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