Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWhy is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.
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It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.
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What is is what must be.
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There is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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