The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZTo love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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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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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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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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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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It’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
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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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The past is pregnant with the present.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
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