Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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I 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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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What is what must be.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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