Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIndeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man’s imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.
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Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
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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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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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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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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
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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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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
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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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