Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi.
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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
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Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.
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Arthur Schopenhauer paraphrased this quotation in the first book of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: Musica est exercitium metaphysices occultum nescientis se philosophari animi. (Music is a hidden metaphysical exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is philosophizing.)Gottfried Leibniz
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This art is music. It stands quite apart from all the others. In it we do not recognize the copy, the repetition, of any Idea of the inner nature of the world. Yet it is such a great and exceedingly fine art, its effect on man's innermost nature is so powerful, and it is so completely and profoundly understood by him in his innermost being as an entirely universal language, whose distinctness surpasses even that of the world of perception itself, that in it we certainly have to look for more than that exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi [exercise in arithmetic in which the mind does not know it is counting] which Leibniz took it to be.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Se questa non piace, non voglio pi? scrivere di musica.
Antonio Vivaldi
Hoc habent pessimum animi magna fortuna insolentes: quos laeserunt et oderunt.
Seneca the Younger
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,
quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.Lucretius
Fidens animi atque in utrumque paratus,
Seu versare dolos, seu certae occumbere morti.Virgil
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