Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is a world of created beings – living things, animals, entelechies, and souls – in the least part of matter. Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
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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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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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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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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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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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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
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Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
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It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
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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 the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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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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