Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZBut 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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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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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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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