Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZWhat is is what must be.
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There is nothing without reason.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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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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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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We live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The present is great with the future.
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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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In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.
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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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