Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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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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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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But 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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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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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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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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