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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

Gottfried Leibniz

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave
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 Nature Order Perfection
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Force Life Machine Thinking World
We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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Animal Destroy Mirror Soul Universe
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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Capacity Horizon Intellectual Mindset Present Respect
Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?
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Condition Destroy God Time Yourself
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Awareness Counting Experience Human Mindset Music Pleasure
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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Future Present Simplicity State Substance
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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Body Perception Sort Worm
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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Act Man Perception Practice Theory
The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Gate Peace Perfection Writing
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Necessary Possible
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner Spontaneous
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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Choice Existence God Possible Willing

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