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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Everything that is possible demands to exist.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.
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All things in God are spontaneous.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
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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 may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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