Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZIt’s easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
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We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.
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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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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.
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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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There is nothing without a reason.
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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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Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
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God’s relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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