Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
More Gottfried Leibniz Quotes
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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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