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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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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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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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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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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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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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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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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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