To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThe pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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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.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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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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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
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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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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
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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.
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Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
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Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
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But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
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