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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Greatness Ground Judgement Ourselves Principle Reason
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Change Creation Myself Philosophy Subject
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 LEIBNIZ

Excellence Lose Machine Man Slave Time
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Each Other Exception Interconnection Reality Sing
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Heart Love Place
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Art Discover Greatness Road Short True
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Happiness Hold Myself Sweet True Truth
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Animal Myself Ordinary System
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Count Exercise Hide Music Soul
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Beginning Essence God Himself Knowledge Reason Science
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Important Invention Myself See Source
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Necessary Possible
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Big Distance Expression Future Present Reading
A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Doctor General Greatness People
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.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Expression Infinity Judgement Nature Organ Past Present Time Universe
God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Development God Order Small