God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZThe pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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I don’t say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
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I 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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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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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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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