Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZI hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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 distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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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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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
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We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.
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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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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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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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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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