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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWe 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.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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What is is what must be.
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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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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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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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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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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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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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Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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