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

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

Gottfried Leibniz

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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.

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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Known Large Ordinary System
We live in the best of all possible worlds.

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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Form Substance
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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Substance
For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
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Willing
There is nothing without a reason.

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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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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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Perception
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

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For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
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Dependent Oneself Way
All things in God are spontaneous.

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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Spontaneous
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Fake
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Independent Substance
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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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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Certain Order
He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.

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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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Sweet
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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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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Author Infinite Order
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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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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