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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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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 pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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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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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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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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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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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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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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