He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter…. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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