The present is great with the future.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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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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