Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

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.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

The past is pregnant with the present.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.