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Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
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The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x.
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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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I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.
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A great doctor kills more people than a great general.
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The past is pregnant with the present.
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The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.
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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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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.
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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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