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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

Gottfried Leibniz

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Music Secret Soul Unconscious Yourself
Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Music Unconscious
All things in God are spontaneous.
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God One Liner Spontaneous
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
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Attachment Happiness Open Problem Secret
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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Absolute Birth Call Death Development Strict
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Count Exercise Hide Music
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
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Certain Establishment Goodness Order Progress
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
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Dictionary Explanation Present Science
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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Art Discover Greatness Reason Road Short
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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Delight Happiness Love Oneself
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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Change Existence God Lying Necessary Reason Source Ultimate
Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.
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Body Dreams Each Other Perfection Phenomena Soul Substance
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Best Live Possible World
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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Knowledge Man Time Understand Wisdom
It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.
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Body End Human Interfere Nature Ridiculous Soul
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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Discover Labour Mindset Wonderful Worth

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