Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZThere is nothing without reason.
More Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes
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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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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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Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
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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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There is nothing without reason.
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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 present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
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The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
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The present is great with the future.
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There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
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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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