Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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The present is great with the future.
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