Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZEverything that is possible demands to exist.
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I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
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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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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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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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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
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