To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The present is great with the future.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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