Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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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 a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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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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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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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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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.
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