Taking Mathematics From The Beginning Of The

It Is Unworthy Of Excellent Men To Lose Hours Like Slaves In The Labor Of Calculation Which Could Be Relegated To Anyone Else If Machines Were Used.

Music Is A Secret And Unconscious Mathematical Problem Of The Soul.

Music Is A Hidden Arithmetic Exercise Of The Soul, Which Does Not Know That It Is Counting.

The Knowledge Which We Have Acquired Ought Not To Resemble A Great Shop Without Order, And Without An Inventory; We Ought To Know What We Possess, And Be Able To Make It Serve Us In Need.

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.