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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

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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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I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
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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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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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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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I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
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Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Quantity Record Wealth Writing
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.
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Charity Justice Wisdom
There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.
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Nature does not make leaps.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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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.
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Animal Myself Ordinary System
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
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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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