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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

Gottfried Leibniz

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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Awareness Counting Experience Human Mindset Music Pleasure
The past is pregnant with the present.
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One Liner Past Pregnant Present
The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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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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Beginning Form Simplicity Substance
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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Author Infinite Nature Order Perfection
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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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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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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