I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZMusic is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
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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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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
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..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
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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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There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.
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To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
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There is nothing without a reason.
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To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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