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Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

Gottfried Leibniz
Soul, Secret, Problem

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Gottfried Leibniz
Exercise, Soul, Doe
Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.

Either there are no corporeal substances, and bodies are merely phenomena which are true or consistent with each other, such as a rainbow or a perfectly coherent dream, or there is in all corporeal substances something analogous to the soul.

Gottfried Leibniz
Dream, Rainbow, Soul

We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

Gottfried Leibniz
Mirrors, Soul, Indestructible
"Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology".

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.

Gottfried Leibniz
Animal, Giving, Soul

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Gottfried Leibniz
Soul, Decay, Natural
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.320, Hackett Publishing

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.

Gottfried Leibniz
Soul, Growth, Development

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Gottfried Leibniz
Ideas, Soul, Different

There 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.

Gottfried Leibniz
Animal, Confusion, Soul

There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.

Gottfried Leibniz
Karma, Remembrance, Soul

It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

Gottfried Leibniz
Long, Soul, Body
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.168, Hackett Publishing

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